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A Literary History of Ireland, from Earliest Times to the Present Day

Note 37 — Chapter XV

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Evidently alluding to the passage in her Irish life which says, "Her type among created things is as the Dove among birds, the vine among trees, and the sun above stars." There is a Latin distich on this grave in Downpatrick which I have seen somewhere,

In burgo Duno tumulo tumulantur in uno Brigida Patricius atque Columba pius.

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