If I Should Ever Leave
If I should ever leave you whom I love to go along the Silent Way, grieve not, Nor speak of me with tears, But laugh and talk of me as
If I were beside you there.
(I’d come – I’d come, could I but find a way! But would not tears and grief be barriers?)
And when you hear a song or see a bird I loved, Please do not let the thought of me be sad…For I am loving you just as I always have…
You were so good to me! There are so many things I wanted still to do
So many things to say to you…
Remember that I did not fear…
It was just leaving you that was so hard to face…We cannot see beyond…But this I know:
I loved you so
‘Twas heaven here with you!