Poems (Barker)/I Want to Go Too

by Alice J. Green Barker

"I Want to Go Too."

Oh! I want to go too, I want to go too
My darling, my own precious darling with you.
They say there are fountains, and mountains and rills,
And the sun shines bright on a thousand hills.
They whisper of lands which no mortal eye
Hath ever seen, where the bright clouds lie,
There there is the gate hung with curtains blue,
Oh! I want to go too, I want to go too.

I knew to-night when you lay so still,
That the summons came over that beautiful hill,
For you gazed so long that I grew afraid
That your soul from mine had silently strayed.
But you turned my darling, and held me fast
In your warm embrace, it was not the last,
For our Father knows that our souls are true,
He is calling you darling, I want to go too.

I want to go too, from this world of care
To that mystical country so grandly fair.
When they give you the crown with jewels bright
I want to be there, to watch their light.
I want to hear the sweet words they say
For which you have waited through many a day.
"The work is well finished I gave you to do,"
Oh darling don't leave me, I want to go too.

And loved one, you know I won't want any crown
For the light of your own will cast radiance down,
And when the bright angels around you stand
They'll not see me in that lovely band.
I'll love you so much and be happy there,
Don't leave me alone in this world of care,
When the beautiful gates close after you
My heart will be broken, I want to go too.

I want to go too; when the angels come
Tell them you promised to take me home,
I want to be there, may be Jesus would bless
In tenderest accents, your own little Bess.
There are fountains and mountains and rocks and rills,
And the sun shines bright on a thousand hills,
Oh the gates are wide open, they're beckoning you,
My darling! my darling! I want to go too!