Name: The Night Prayer of Saint Augustine
Duration: P00H02M44S
Description: One for mum - when she feared she was losing her marbles on morphine in the Royal Victoria Hospital, I asked her to prove she had a good memory and she spontaneouslty recited - in perfect order - all of the Books of the Bible. I had no idea she could do that.

The Night Prayer of Saint Augustine

from Ink (2017) by Anthony Toner

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One for mum - when she feared she was losing her marbles on morphine in the Royal Victoria Hospital, I asked her to prove she had a good memory and she spontaneouslty recited - in perfect order - all of the Books of the Bible. I had no idea she could do that.

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The Night Prayer of St. Augustine

After three days of morphine visions
in the hospital, Tuesday night,
you recited the books of the Bible,
just to show that your head was all right.
It was a trick you had learned as a youngster,
some Sunday in some dusty old hall -
you were golden as the sun on an acre of corn,
when nothing really mattered at all.

Such a succession of prophets,
of letters and gospels and names:
Corinthians, Romans and Hebrews,
The Acts and Revelation and James.
And then you told me the Sisters of Mercy
had been with you the previous day,
and they left this little card on your table,
in case you decided to pray.

Now you're gone but I still keep it with me,
in the hope that I’ll get away clean.
Some nights I sleep with it under my tongue:
The Night Prayer of Saint Augustine.

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from Ink (2017), released March 2, 2023
Anthony Toner - guitars and vocal

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Anthony Toner Belfast, UK

An independent singer songwriter and guitarist, based in Belfast.

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