Oh I will go to heaven so said the little boy <br />My mum tells me that I'll go there when my turn comes to die <br />And roses bloom in heaven and birds sing every day <br />And I will be in heaven I will be there by May. <br /> <br />And I'll not be sick in heaven in heaven far away <br />I'll be a happy healthy boy that's what my mummy say <br />And I'll have friends to play with and I'll know only joy <br />And I will be a happy boy in Land beyond the sky. <br /> <br />He slowly nodded off to sleep his mother by the bed <br />She stooped and kissed his thin and pale cheeks 'good night my love' she said <br />And as he slept he dreamt a dream of Land beyond the stars <br />And he was with God's angels a million miles from mars. <br /> <br />And he was in a garden where hosts of roses bloom <br />And air it scented sweetly of Nature's own perfume <br />And lamp of sun shone brightly on World that's ever young <br />And on the green and flowering trees a million songbirds sung. <br /> <br />And in this Land called Heaven in the heat of the day <br />In the cool shadow of the trees the lion with the lamb lay <br />And o'er the sunlit pastures God's angels take to wing <br />And to the music of the larks such joyful songs they sing. <br /> <br />And on a sunlit pathway he played there with his toys <br />And he had plenty company happy young girls and boys <br />And in God's sunlit garden the voice of laughter ring <br />In World beyond the Planets Land of eternal Spring. <br /> <br />Next morning the nurse found him a corpse there stiff and white <br />His soul had gone to heaven departed overnight <br />And in her notes the nurse she wrote at 6 a.m. today <br />I found young Johnny without life on this the first of May.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-dying-boy/
