<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=37716" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Monica’s Last Prayer</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Oh could thy grave at home, at Carthage, be!' —<br>Care not for that, and lay me where I fall.<br>Everywhere heard will be the judgment-call.<br>But at God's altar, oh! remember me.<br>Thus Monica, and died in Italy.<br>Yet fervent had her longing been, through all<br>Her course, for home at last, and burial<br>With her own husband, by the Libyan sea.<br>Had been; but at the end, to her pure soul<br>All tie with all beside seem'd vain and cheap, 10<br>And union before God the only care.<br>Creeds pass, rites change, no altar standeth whole;<br>Yet we her memory, as she pray'd, will keep,<br>Keep by this: Life in God, and union there!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Matthew+Arnold">Matthew Arnold</a> from <i>Sonnets</i><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=37716" data-title="Monica’s Last Prayer de Matthew Arnold" data-description="'Oh 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, throu..."></div> </div> </div>

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