Classic English Reading

American Declaration of Independence | Away in a Manger | For now we see through a glass, darkly | Futility | If | I shall not pass this way again | Ozymandias |The Female of the Species |To be, or not to be | To every thing there is a season  | The Lord is my shepherd

Rune of St Patrick

At Tara today in this fateful hour
I place all heaven with its power,
and the sun with its brightness,
and the snow with its whiteness,
and fire with all the strength it hath,
and lightning with its rapid wrath,
and the winds with their swiftness along their path,
and the sea with its deepness,
and the rocks with their steepness
and the earth with its starkness:
all these I place,
by God’s almighty help and grace,
between myself and the powers of darkness.