Assisi is wonderful Jerry - I only spent half a day there, but I long to get back there again.

My father was stationed there for a but during the war, and I think it was about the only part of his time in the Army he used to recall with a sense of evident joy.

Sydney Carter wrote a version of St Francis' Carol of the Creatures - it's on "Lovely as the Dances" together with George Fox, Julian of Norwich, amd John Ball.

Creator high and holy,
To you all praise and power belong.
Let all men listen
To the carol of your creatures.
You are the end
And the beginning of their song.

Chorus
Oh, leap and carol to the Lord, I say,
Show what he has done.
Oho, leap and carol to the Lord, I say,
Show him like the sun.
And first I call my Brother Sun,
For by that light I see
The leaping of the holy One
That called the light to be.

I call upon my Sister Moon,
I love that gentle light,
And all the stars so sharp and clear
That shiver in the night.
Chorus

I call on you my Brother Wind,
By weather foul or fair,
You show the likeness of the Lord
I breathe him like the air.
Chorus

I call on you my Sister Water,
Come down from the sky,
And show the likeness of the Lord
I drink him or I die.
Chorus

I call on you my Brother Fire,
In yellow light and red
You leap and carol to the Lord
With sparks around your head.
Chorus

My Sister Death you call me
To leap and carol I cannot say no.
I am a dancer,
To the end and the beginning
Of all the leaping
And the carolling I go.
Chorus

Come all you men and women too,
Show pity and forgive.
For by your love you show the Lord
And with Him you shall live.