{"id":4484,"date":"2017-09-09T16:05:19","date_gmt":"2017-09-09T20:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=4484"},"modified":"2017-09-13T08:43:19","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T12:43:19","slug":"the-forgotten-verse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=4484","title":{"rendered":"The forgotten verse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>All Creatures of Our God and King <\/i>is a hymn written by William Draper at the beginning\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">of the last century. It is essentially a paraphrase of &#8216;The Canticle of the Sun&#8217;, a poem written by St. Francis of Assisi in 1224, the last year of his life. The final verse of the poem was composed just a few minutes before he died, and is paraphrased in Draper&#8217;s hymn very powerfully, although it rarely appears in hymnbooks:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>And thou most kind and gentle Death,<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Waiting to hush our latest breath,<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">O praise Him! Alleluia!<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Thou leadest home the child of God,<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">And Christ our Lord the way hath trod.<br \/>\nO praise Him! Alleluia!<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All Creatures of Our God and King is a hymn written by William Draper at the beginning\u00a0of the last century. It is essentially a paraphrase of &#8216;The Canticle of the Sun&#8217;, a poem written by St. Francis of Assisi in 1224, the last year of his life. The final verse of the poem was composed &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=4484\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The forgotten verse&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4484"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4484"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4486,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4484\/revisions\/4486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}