Song of Creation - Hardcover

Francis, Saint; Saint Francis Of Assisi

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1883211344 ISBN 13: 9781883211349

Publisher: Laughing Elephant, 2003

Synopsis

In 1225 the infirm St. Francis, living in a hut in a church garden, wrote this poem in which he looks on the face of creation and blesses it in its totality. Our text is a translation of the poem by Matthew Arnold. We have illuminated each line with paintings -- ""Praised be my Lord for our brother the Wind"" is accompanied by a Corot painting of trees bent before a gale, and also an illustration by Frank Pape in which a dove is borne joyously upward. In this manner two faces of wind are shown, and the words made more vividly manifest.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

In the last year of his life St. Francis, greatly hampered by his illness and progressing blindness, lived in a reed hut in the garden of the church of St. Damian. There he composed this song in which he expressed his kinship with the various aspects of creation.

G.K. Chesterton writes of St. Francis "He was above all things a great giver, and he cared chiefly for the best kind of giving which is called thanksgiving."

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O most high, almighty, good lord God, to Thee belong praise, glory, honour, and all blessing!

Praised be my Lord God with all His creatures; and specially our brother the sun, who brings us the day, and who brings us the light; fair is he, and shining with a very great splendour: O Lord, to us he signifies Thee!

Praised be my Lord for our sister the moon, and for the stars, the which He has set clear and lovely in heaven.

Praised be my Lord for our brother the wind, and for air and cloud, calms and all weather, by the which Thou upholdest in life all creatures.

About this edition

• Publisher: Laughing Elephant
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1883211344
• ISBN 13: 9781883211349
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 48