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whose immortal Hymn to the Sun echoed over
the valley of the Nile five hundred years before
Homer sang:
‘When Thou risest all the land is in joy and
gladness
And men say: It is Life to see Thee, it is
Death not seeing Thee.
West and East give praise to Thee, When
Thou hast risen they live,
When thou settest they die.’”
Yet you looked on with no pity in your
shining eye while the gods of old hurled the
temple of your greatest worshipper in the Nile
and tore the Solar Disk from his brow and the
royal vulture from his breast and erased his hated
name from the wrappings of sheeted gold round
his frail body, condemning his nameless soul to
wander in the underworld through all eternity.
Long after the gods of the Nile, the gods of
Olympus and the gods of Walhalla had fallen
into dust, another worshipper of yours, St.
Francis of Assisi, the sweet singer of Il Canto
del Sole, raised his arms to your heaven, immortal
Sungod, with the same prayer on his lips that I
am addressing you to-day, that you should not
take away your blessed light from his ailing eyes,
worn out by vigil and tears. Earnestly besought
by the brethren he journeyed to Rieti to consult
a famous eye-doctor and submitted fearlessly to
the operation advised by him. When the
surgeon placed the iron in the fire to heat it St.
Francis spoke to the fire as to a friend, saying:
“Brother Fire, before all other things the
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