Paul's tide. 23 



JAN, 23. St. Raymond of Pennafort, conf. a.d. 

 1275. 

 St. Emerentia, v.m. in 304. 

 St. John the Almoner, patriarch of Alexandria. 

 St. Clement of Aneyra. 

 St. Ilclefonsus, archbishop. — St. Eusebius. 



Obs. St. Raymond was born in 1175 at the Castle of Pegnafort, 

 in Catalonia, which was afterwards changed in the fifteenth century 

 into a Convent of the Order of St. Dominick. His life, which ie 

 given by Alban Butler in his Lives of the Saints, is well worth 

 reading, but it would not coincide with the nature of this work to 

 give any thing but short notices. 



St. Emerentia died a martyr in 304, being stoned to death while 

 she was a catechumen, praying at the tomb of St. Agnes. 



St. John the Almoner, so called from the profusion with which 

 he daily made the Horn of Plenty disembogue itself into the Lap of 

 Poverty, was born in the island of Cypress, and was promoted to 

 the Patriarchal Chair at Alexandria in 608. 



Peziza Peziza acetabulum found. 



This plant is recorded as found today in certain Calendars of 

 Nature, and is indeed common at this time of year. The Redbreast 

 and other docile birds now come to our windows for food at this 

 inclement season. 



Verses to a Rcdhrenst , bu Montgomery. 



Welcome, pretty little stranger ! 



Welcome to my lone retreat ! 

 Here, secure from every danger. 



Hop about, and chirp, and eat. 

 Robin ! how I envy thee, 

 Happy child of liberty ! 



Now, though the tyrant Winter howling, 



Shakes the world with tempests round ; 

 Heaven above, with vapours scowhng. 



Frost imprisons all tlie ground ; — 

 Robin ! what are these to thee ? 

 Thou art blest with liberty. 

 Though yon fair majestic river 



]Mourns in solid icy chains ; 

 Though yon flocks and cattle shiver 



On the desolated plains ; 

 Robin ! thou art gay and free, 

 Happy in thy liberty. 



Hunger never shall distress thee. 



While my cates one crumb afford ; 

 Colds nor cramps shall ne'er oppress thee ; 



Come and share my humble board. 

 Robin ! come and live with me. 

 Live, — ^yet still at liberty. 



