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" The Shamrock" has also come in for a large share of poetic propagation, and as early as 16S9 we find its praises sung in verse:
*4 Springs, happy springs, adorned with sallets, Which nature purposed for their palats ; Shamrogs and watercress he shows Which was both meat and drink and clothes."
The sfiamrock was held in high esteem at one time for the making of salads," being of a sharp taste" as well as sorrel. The popular belief re-specting the shamrock, or trefoil, Is, says Croker, that St. Patrick by its means satisfactorily ex-plained to the early converts of Christianity In Ireland the Trinity in Unity; exhibiting the three leaves attached to one stalk as an illustra-tion. St. Patrick is usually represented in the garb of a bishop holding a trefoil. The trefoil plant (shamroc and shamrakh in Arabic) was held sacred in Iran, and was considered em-blematical of the Persian Triad. The Loyal Volunteers of Cork used to wear the shamrock as a national decoration,as maybe gathered from the " Cork Remembrancer/' March 17th, 1780. " The armed societies of this city paraded on the Mall with shamrock cockades, and fired three volleys in honour of the day."
The best song on the subject of the trefoil is
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