WHERE IS HEAVEN
Elias Carman
Where is Heaven? Is it not
Just a friendly garden plot,
Walled with stone and roofed with the sun,
Where the days past one by one,
Not too fast and not too slow
Looking backward as they go
At the beauties left behind
To transport the pensive mind.
Does not Heaven begin that day
When the eager heart can say,
Surely God is in this place,
I have seen Him face to face,
In the service of the showers,
And His voice has talked to me
In the sunlit apple tree.
