I don't know why this thread is still listed as BS. I think it needs to be promoted (or demoted) to the music list. Anyhow, here's a lyric by James Stephens (a friend of James Joyce) that I think is a fascinating take on the Lord's Prayer that would go well on St. Francis' Day. I'm not sure of the date; though it very likely is still under copyright technically, none of the sources I've seen pinpoint its origin. The earliest occurrence I know of is the Oxford-published hymnal Songs of Praise, 1925, and I don't yet know what tune it's set to there. The 1930 New Hymnal for American Youth has it set to a 1927 tune by Peter Lutkin called Dublin; since there are other tunes called Dublin, better to cite this as Dublin (Lutkin).

Little Things, that run and quail,
And die, in silence and despair!
Little things, that fight and fail,
And fall, on sea and earth and air!
All trapped and frightened little things,
The mouse, the coney, hear our prayer!
As we forgive those done to us,
- the lamb, the linnet and the hare -
forgive us all our trespasses,
little creatures, everywhere!

Haruo