. God's troubadour; the story of St. Francis of Assisi . ABOVE THE BROWN TILED ROOFS RISE TALL GREEN CYPRESS WALL OF AN ASSlSI GARDEN. TJLDfcN A CHILD OF LONG AGO with a great wall all about it, and a castleon the height above, and it looks very muchas it did on that September afternoon morethan seven hundred years ago, when FrancisBernardone waited for his father. Insidethe walls, the stone houses are crowded to-gether, making narrow, crooked streets, sosteep, often, that no carriage can drive •, through them. Some streets, indeed, aresimply long flights of stone steps, where thechild
. God's troubadour; the story of St. Francis of Assisi . ABOVE THE BROWN TILED ROOFS RISE TALL GREEN CYPRESS WALL OF AN ASSlSI GARDEN. TJLDfcN A CHILD OF LONG AGO with a great wall all about it, and a castleon the height above, and it looks very muchas it did on that September afternoon morethan seven hundred years ago, when FrancisBernardone waited for his father. Insidethe walls, the stone houses are crowded to-gether, making narrow, crooked streets, sosteep, often, that no carriage can drive •, through them. Some streets, indeed, aresimply long flights of stone steps, where thechildren play, and the patient donkeysclimb up, carrying heavy loads of charcoalor faggots. But, though the streets are nar-row, Assisi is not gloomy. Everywherethere is sunshine and bright colour. Abovethe brown tiled roofs rise tall green cypresstrees; over a bit of garden wall trail redtrumpet-creepers and blue morning-glories;even the window-sills are gay with pinkand red geraniums. In the open square themarket-gardeners sell ripe grapes and [5] GODS TROUBADOUR plums and figs, covered over with freshvine-leave
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