Awaits your coming to the skies,
And o'er you watch with jealous eyes,
"Lest earth detain you till too late
To enter heaven's wide open gate.
Oh, tarry not on earth too long,
But with me join immortal's song!"
She spake, and through the vaulted sky,
Beyond the reach of mortal eye,
She wings her rapid noiseless flight
And I am left alone tonight.
Nay, not alone; for in my soul
I feel a new-born sweet control
That lures me to a higher life,
Which will please an angel wife!
Farewell, prison blight and bars,
Mine is a home beyond the stars.
Welcome, Death, at any hour,
Since sin has lost her maddening power!
