Blair Collection > Celtic gleanings, or, Notices of the history and literature of the Scottish Gael

LFX'TURE III. 'JSO
Ciaran, and Alciiin, mention his liavmg com-
posed a 'Monastic Kule/ wliicliWare says was
extant in his time; he also composed a 'Eule for
Hermits/ of which Colgan says he had a copy in
his possession ; he also wrote a number of poems
and hymns in Irish and Latin. Ten of the
Irish poems were in the possession of Colgan
(1647), who gives the title and first line of three
of them. Of these I have seen none but his
' Farewell to the Monastery of Durrough."' Of
Columba's Latin hymns or poems Colgan has
published three. A few specimens of these, from
Dr Smith's translations, may be of interest ; the
original of one of them proceeds as follows, in a
short, jerking measure, said to be taken from the
measure most in use among ancient Irish com-
posers of hymns, and adapted to the music of
the ancient Irish church: —
" Noli, Pater, indulgere
Tonitrua cum fulgure
Ne frangamur formidine
Hujus atque uredine-
Ne timemus terribilera,
Nullum credentes similem —
Te cuncta canunt carmina,
Angelorum per agmina," &c.
Tins hymn, said to have been composed dur-