Poems (Sharpless)/A Message from Paradise

by Frances 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.