Monica’s Last Prayer

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Monica's Last Prayer by Matthew Arnold

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The “Monica” to whom the poem’s title refers is the St Monica (AD 331-387), a fourth-century AD Christian and mother of St Augustine of Hippo, the early Christian theologian, philosopher and bishop.

Of likely Berber origins from North Africa, Monica married Patricius, a pagan Roman appointed an gov...

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"Ah, could thy grave at home, at Carthage, be!"
Care not for that, and lay me where I fall!
Everywhere heard will be the judgment-call;
But at God's altar, oh! remember me.

Thus Monica, and died in Italy.
Yet fervent had her longing been, through all
Her course, for home at last, and burial
With her own husband, by the Libyan sea.

Had been! but at the end, to her pure soul
All tie with all beside seem'd vain and cheap,
And union before God the only care.

Creeds pass, rites change, no altar standeth whole.
Yet we her memory, as she pray'd, will keep,
Keep by this: Life in God, and union there!

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