Poems (Sharpless)/A Message from Paradise
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 mournThat 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.