The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-07-04

tears .
And heard his voice in the dusky gloon
In mournfui accents say:
you have beat me, Nell, a little: YOU have
crossed the river first;
You have reached the golden city, and have
heard the joyous burst
Of the charming angel-music, where the
anthems ring and swell;
You nave seen the sights OF heaven which
no mortal tongue can tell
"oh, how oft I've prayed to heaven. that
when death az last should come.
Il might take us both together to our ever
lasting home:
We have lived so long together that hoped
We both might die
And our souls go on together in their jour
ney to the sky. ttfI
"But you've gone on first and left me, when
we wanted both to go.
Il was hardly like you, Nellie, 10 go on and
leave me so!
But I s'pose the angels called you; vet 1
hardly think il kind,
When we've lived so long together, 10 leave
me alone behind.
last night while was sleeping all alone
Such happy dream came 10 me OF the other
years now flown,
In my dream 1 saw your features as they
looked in days gone by.
When your auburn tresses clustered where
your snowy locks now lie.
1--WE were sitting both together in the noon
day of our life
was happy husband, and you a happy
wife,
And our childrep-little Willie and our dar-
ling little May
By our sides were romping gayly, happy in
their childish play.
II forgot they both were sleeping in the
churchyari on the bill,
Where the flowers bloom in summer and the
winter winds are chill
forgot the grief we suffered when we knew
that they were dead;
forgot the bitter tear-drops DER their little
graves we shed
I'm my dreams 1 heard you singing, and
your voice was sweet and low;
While you sang the songs that pleased me in
the years OF long ago
/ have heard the sweet notes ringing In my
ears this whole day long.
And the words come plainly TO me OF that
long-forgotten song.
"Oh, I'd like to dream on always as did on
yester-night,
And d like to see YOU always, as YOU looked
so sweet and bright,
And d like TO see our children as / saw
them plainly then;
Oh, I'd like to live on always dreaming that
dream Ger againl
But my bright dream quickly ended, and
wakened with groan
To find myself there lying in my widowed
bed, alone;
And, oh Nell. it seemed so lonely when I
knew you was not there,
That weight Of grief came on me, almost
more than / could bear.
"AH alonel' Oh, Nellie, darling, oh. that
dreary word-alOnei
Birtersst word that mortal tongue or mortal
ear has ever known
Never did know its meaning as it came 10
me this morn
When / found myself forssken. and nay poor
old heart forlorn.
.'Why. oh. Nellie, did you leave me in this
world so drear and cold?
Did you care less for me, Nellie, now that
have grown so old?
But my heart was young still, Nellie, and my
love was just as true
AS it was when we were younger and told
il first TO YOU.
But L s pose it's wrong 10 murmur, for you're
happier, know,
Than ever I could make Won in this cold
world here below;
But I can not help the wishing that lay
there by your side
That when Death came for YOU, Nellie, We
together might have died.
81 know that you will meet me in that world
so bright and fair,
And amid the joys of heaven you will wish
that ] was there;
And whene'er the gate shall open 10 let one
more soul come home,
You win look around so eagerly TO see if I
have come.
you viii kiss our children for me when you
meet them in the sky,
And You'll tell them fathers coming, they
viii see him by and by,
And you'll ask our Father, Nellie, If His
pleasure il might be.
He VIII send his angels quickly with sum-
mons after me
And you'll meet me, won't you, Nellie, Just
inside the pearly gate?
! VIII heed the summons quickly, so you
won't have long to wait,
And you'll greet me, Nellie darling, with
that dear, sweet. wifely kiss,
When you bid my spirit welcome 10 that
world Of endless bliss.
'Then Wen live on there forever, for no dy-
ing there Is known,
and Wen never know how sad il is for one
TO be alone,
And our children viii be with us; then how
happy We Will be,
Living through the countless ages Of a blest