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Going to heaven!
I don't know when, / Pray do not ask me how, -- / Indeed, I 'm too astonished / To think of answering you!
Going to heaven! -- / How dim it sounds!
And yet it will be done / As sure as flocks go home at night / Unto the shepherd's arm!
Perhaps you 're going too!
Who knows?
If you should get there first, / Save just a little place for me / Close to the two I lost!
The smallest "robe" will fit me, / And just a bit of "crown;"
For you know we do not mind our dress / When we are going home.
I 'm glad I don't believe it, / For it would stop my breath, / And I 'd like to look a little more / At such a curious earth!
I am glad they did believe it / Whom I have never found / Since the mighty autumn afternoon / I left them in the ground.