Monica's Last Prayer [Sonnet]

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Title:     Monica's Last Prayer [Sonnet]
Author: Matthew Arnold [More Titles by Arnold]

"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!_

 

[The end]
Matthew Arnold's poem: Monica's Last Prayer [sonnet]

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