There is a time, I know <br />When darkness shall over me flow; <br />A time when our hearts must part, <br />And my final journey start. <br /> <br />Oh, would I know, the time or place <br />Of my final glimpse of your sweet face; <br />I would hold you tight before <br />I journey far beyond the shore. <br /> <br />If I could, but know somehow <br />That we would be the same as now, <br />And together be forever more <br />In yonder life, beyond the shore. <br /> <br />My joy would reach into my soul; <br />Eternal life would make me whole <br />For I would know as not before <br />That we shall meet, beyond the shore.<br /><br />Richard Netherland Cook<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/beyond-the-shore/