I am home in heaven, dear ones, Oh, so happy and so bright! There is perfect joy and beauty In this everlasting life. All the pain and grief is over, every restless tossing passed I am now at peace forever, Safely home in heaven at last, There is still work waiting for you so you must not idly Stand, Do it now, while life remaineth you shall rest in Gods’s own land. When the work is all completed, He will gently call you home. Ah, the rapture of than meeting, Oh, the joy to see you come!
A good name is better than a good ointment and the day of one’s death is better than the day of one’s birth. It is better to go to a house of mourning than to go a house of feasting because that is the end of every man and the living takes it to the heart. Sorrow is better than laughter, for when the face is sad a heart may be happy. The mind of a wise is in the house of mourning, while the mind of a fools is in the house of pleasure.