Текст песни St. Patrick’s Breastplate - David Coffin

I call upon the noble earth
to give me strength through day and night;
Her granite and her gems of worth
are tokens of her various might.
And from her shores the endless sea
in calm and tempest girds the sphere,
And like the earth the waters free
shall be my trust against all fear.

Above the earth and waters free
the air enfolds the globe's fair breast
In it good spirits do abide;
I count on them in strife and rest.
And last of all the golden fire
shall be my great and strong ally;
The goodly powers that never tire
are all my strength below, on high.

I bind unto myself today
the virtues of the star-lit heav'n,
The glorious sun's life giving ray,
the whiteness of the moon at eve;
The flashing of the lightning free,
the whirling wind's tempestuous shocks,
The stable earth, the deep salt sea,
around the old eternal rocks.