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First Line: What is heaven? 'tis a country
Last Line: Lord! Admit me, or I die.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Death; God; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise


1.

What is heaven? 'tis a country
Far away from mortal ken;
'Tis a land, where, by God's bounty,
After death live righteous men.

2.

That that blest land I may enter,
Is my humble, earnest cry;
Lord! admit me to Thy presence,
Lord! admit me, or I die.





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