<\/p>\n Blind Francis, waiting to welcome Sister Death,<\/span><\/p>\n Worn Had heart for tune. With what remained of He led his friars in canticles. Then came<\/span><\/p>\n Brother Elias, scowling, to Small-souled Elias, crying by book and candle,<\/span><\/p>\n This was outrageous! Music at deathbeds! Ah, the shame! the scandal!<\/span><\/p>\n Elias Instead of song; which simply proves once more<\/span><\/p>\n What Death, taxes, and the counsel of the Though we outwit the tithe, make death our friend,<\/span><\/p>\n Bores we have with us (Phyllis McGinley, 1950)<\/span><\/p>\n <\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Blind Francis, waiting to welcome Sister Death, Worn though he was by ecstacies and fame, Had heart for tune. With what remained of breath, He led his friars in canticles. Then came Brother Elias, scowling, to his side, Small-souled Elias, crying by book and candle, This was outrageous! Had the friars no pride? Music at … Continue reading Sonnet for Assisi<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43],"tags":[1773,1770,2063],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24977"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"St](\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/St%20Francis4.jpg\")
\nthough he was by ecstacies and fame,<\/span><\/p>\n
\nbreath,<\/span><\/p>\n
\nhis side,<\/span><\/p>\n
\nHad the friars no pride?<\/span><\/p>\n
\ngave him sermons and advice<\/span><\/p>\n
\nthings are sure this side of paradise:<\/span><\/p>\n
\nbore.<\/span><\/p>\n
\neven to the end.<\/span><\/p>\n