“Far down on the earth do you hear them weep?”
Said the children up in heaven,
“For the dear little girl has gone to sleep!
The shadows fall and the night-clouds sweep
O’er the earth that we used to live in:
But we’ll go and open the gates of pearl—
Oh, why do they weep for their dear little girl?”
Said the children up in heaven.
“Fly with her quickly, O angels dear,”
Said the children up in heaven.