I Dreamed I Saw

St. Augustine

Source:

"I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine" from John Wesley Harding (1967)

Quote:

I dreamed I saw St. Augustine, / Alive as you or me. / Tearing through these quarters, / In the utmost misery.

Comments:

Augustine was a north African theologian, famous for writing his guilt-intensive Confessions during the waning days of the Roman Empire (ca. 400 AD).

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