Classic Poem

Weep not for me, O tender heart!
Thou know'st my wish that all thy part
In life should be a happy way
As sunlit as a summer day.
Weep not for me!

In life thy tears were bitter drops,
In death thy woe's a hand that stops
The current of Eternity,
And smites thy echoed grief to me,
O tender heart!

No tears, O love! be happy now!
" A little while, " and know shalt thou
What 't is to lie and wait in earth
The resurrection and the birth.
Weep not for me!