To My Wife Isabella.
"We Shall Meet and Love in Heaven" (1873)
Words by Bella French.
Music by Thomas Martin Towne, 1835-1912.

1.
"When this life on earth is ended,
And I've crossed the misty sea.
I shall love you still in Heaven,"
So my loved one said to me.
On one bonny April morning,
In the hopeful long ago;
As we stood where apple blossoms
showered down like flakes of snow.

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When this life on earth is ended,
And we've crossed the misty sea;
We shall meet and love in Heaven,
So my loved one said to me;
We shall meet and love in Heaven,
So my loved one said to me.

2.
And I laughing made the answer,
"Oh! your love has priceless worth,
If it lives through all the changes
Of a life upon this earth."
But he whispered just as softly,
Just as sweetly as before:
"We shall meet and love in Heaven."
When our earth-life shall be o're.

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3.
"We shall meet and love in Heaven,
Yes those were the words he said.
And today he cannot tell you,
If I am alive or dead.
Since that morn the apple blossoms
By the April breezes blown,
Oft have dropt in snowy showers
But they fell on me alone.

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4.
He has gone, but where he wanders,
I shall never, never know,
It may be 'mid southern flowers,
It may be through fields of snow,
But alas! today it matters
Now what lands he travels o'er;
We shall meet I know in Heaven
Though on earth we meet no more.

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