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The naïve sublimity of the concluding petition of the prayer "et alienis rebus semper cum usus penuria, dum vivit caro misera, sustentari," is most characteristic of the Saint, not only in its sentiment but in its Franciscan directness. It strikes strangely upon modern ears to hear a Divine petition that certain men may ever be known as men who lived
- [Footnote: sake of Dante's great imagination, that
he may be in the wrong. So competent an authority as Mr Wicksteed adheres to "salse," basing his reason on this very prayer. See the "Paradise" of Dante Alighieri, translated by Philip H. Wicksteed, Dent, 1899.]
