Classic Poem

Mamma , I see you over there, "
He said, and then he sank to rest,
Happy to feel that she was near
To guard and tend his little nest.

But when the morning broke, it brought
Another night of deeper gloom;
For the blue heaven of Jamie's eyes
No longer lighted all the room.

No answering word or look or smile
Our hungry hearts might hope to win;
And the faint breathing fainter grew,
Then stopped, and did no more begin.

" Mamma, I see you over there: "
No simpler words could he have said,
But now that he is gone they seem
A message from the living dead.

" I see you over there, " it says,
" Father and Mother, in your pain;
I see the way that I have come,
But may not traverse it again.

" But still my thought can go to you,
As yours can come and stay with me;
And each can know the other near,
And greatly joy with it to be.

" And so if, as the days go past,
Our thoughts can thus together bide,
Whate'er is missed, are we not still
Living together side by side? "

This is the message. Well we know
'Tis but the echo of our prayer;
And yet we trust that 'tis a sign
Of what is true of Here and There.