with colored flowers and herbs." The Irish composer Vincent Kennedy was commissioned by the Irish Franciscans to set the Canticle of the Sun for Soprano, Harp and Trumpet. The resulting work has 9 songs containing the complete text of the Canticle. The first performance took place in the Franciscan church of Adam and Eve in Dublin on 4 June 2017. Elizabeth Goudge, English novelist, included a version of the canticle in her short story about a Franciscan monk, Our Brother the Sun, published in January 1946: later, in her 1946 children's novel The Little White Horse, she provides Spring Song, a hymn written as a verse paraphrase, supposedly by the character, Old Parson: Chapter 9, Part 3. See also Benedicite Great Hymn to the Aten Saints and animal/plant life References External links https://soundcloud.com/user-223114985/canticle-of-the-sun Lyrics to the Canticle at Prayer Foundation. Alternative Translation Umbrian Version 1 Umbrian Version 2 101 Hymn Stories Invitation to Italian Poetry Francis of Assisi Italian Christian hymns 13th-century poems Franciscan spirituality Umbria 1220s works Christianity and nature 13th-century Christian texts