Poems (Sharpless)/A Message from Paradise

4648347Poems — A Message from ParadiseFrances M. Sharpless

A MESSAGE FROM PARADISE
Why mean you by this weeping
To break my very heart?
We both are in Christ's keeping,
And therefore cannot part.

You there, I here, tho' severed,
We still, at heart, are one;
I only just in sunshine,
The shadows scarcely gone.

What if the clouds surround you,
You can the brightness see:—
Tis only just a little way
That leads from you to me.

I was so very weary,
Surely you could not mourn
That I a little sooner
Should lay my burden down!

Then weep not, weep not, darling,
God wipes away all tears;—
'Tis only yet a little while,
Though you may call it years.