“I almost feel as if we had made a mistake, and that this is the land of Beuler.” And he murmured to himself some words of the old him:
“Oh Beuler land! Sweet Beuler land!”
And I whispered back to him and sez—“Hush they don’t have brass bands in Beulah land.”
And he sez, “How do you know what they have in Beuler?”
“Wall,” sez I, “’taint likely they do.”
But I don’t know as I felt like blamin’ him, for it did seem to me to be the most beautiful place that I ever sot my eyes on. And it did seem fairly as if them long glitterin’ chains and links of colored lights, a stretchin’ fur back into the distance sort a begoned for us to enter into a land of perfect beauty and Pure Delight.
And then them glitterin’ chains of light would jine onto other golden, and crimson, and orange, and pink, and blue, and amber links of glory and hang there all drippin’ with radiance, and way back as fur as we could see. And away down under the shinin’ lanes the white statues stood, beautiful snow-white females, a lookin’ as if they enjoyed it all. And the lake mirrowed back all of the beauty.
Right out onto the lake stood a fairy-like structure all glowin’ with big drops of light and every glitterin’ drop reflected down in the water and the fountain a sprayin’ up on each side. Why it sprayed up floods of diamonds, and rubys, and sapphires, and topazzes, and turkeys, and pearls, and opals, and sparklin’ ’em right back into the water agin.
And right while we stood there, neerly rooted to the spot and gazin’ through extacy and 2 pickets, the band gin a loud burst of melody and then stopped, and after a minute of silence, we hearn a voice angel-sweet a risin’ up, up, like a lark, a tender-hearted, golden-throated lark.
High, high above all the throngs of human folks who wuz cheerin’ her down below - up above the sea of glitterin’ light - up above the bendin’ trees that clasped their hands together in silent applaudin’ above her, up, up, into the clear heavens, rose that glorious voice a singin’ some song about love, love that wuz deathless, eternal.