Enrico’s reciting the response of the villagers in the original story of Brother Wolf, from Fioretti di San Francesco.
Kids: The lights are back! / Is it safe?
Narration: The lights returned, and I realized that the audience had no idea how much danger they had been in. They thought it was part of the act. And it had to stay that way.
Enrico: Lift up your voices to Heaven, praising & blessing God, who has sent us Francis, through whose merits we have been delivered from such a savage beast.