A note on the life and writings of Paul Hiffernan, M. D. : read before the Bibliographical Society of Ireland on 24th November, 1930.

  • Kirkpatrick, T. Percy C. (Thomas Percy Claude), 1869-1954.
Date:
1931
Catalogue details

Licence: In copyright

Credit: A note on the life and writings of Paul Hiffernan, M. D. : read before the Bibliographical Society of Ireland on 24th November, 1930. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    12/12 (page 22)
    An Irish Fishermans Prayer Christ’s is the Seed ! The Harvest is Christ’s ! From Life’s ripening mead When God’s autumn is red Into His granary Be we harvested. Christ’s is the Sea ! Christ’s is the Fish ! When from earth-thrall set free— In God’s trawling-net spread On the waves of the world Be we gathered. From green youth to age, From white age to death, Fond, foolish or sage— From the hour that life found us May Thy two. Hands, O, Christ ! Be around us. From death to the end That is no end but a growth In the Love of a Friend, To that far, pleasant homing, Guide Thou, O, White Christ ! Our shoreward coming. Cathal O’Bvrne. Reprinted from the Catholic World, New York. A paraphrase of: “ Ag Criost an sfol, ag Criost an Foghmhar In iothlann De go dtugtar sinn. Ag Criost an mhuir, ag Criost an t-iasc I liontaibh De go gcastar sinn O fhas go h-aois, 6 aois go bas Do dha lamh, a Chriost, anall tharainn O bhds go crioch, nach crioch ach ath-fhas I bParrthas na ngras, go rabh sinn.”