THE CHILD'S WELCOME INTO HEAVEN.
The golden gates were open
And heavenly seraphs smiled
And with their tuneful harpstrings
Welcomed the little child.
They shouted "high and holy,
A child hath entered in,
And safe from all temptation
A soul is sealed from sin."
They led him through the golden street
On to the King of kings,
And a glory fell upon him
From the rustling of their wings.
The Saviour smiled upon him
As none on earth had smiled,
And Heaven's great glory shone around
The little earth-born child.
On earth they missed the little one,
They sighed and wept and sighed,
And wondered if another such
As theirs, had ever died.
Oh! had they seen through those high gates,
The welcome to him given,
They never would have wished their child
Back from his home in Heaven.
—Unidentified.