Little Bessie

Hug me closer, mother closer
Put your arms around me tight
For I'm cold and tired dear mother
And I feel so strange tonight

Something hurts me here dear mother
Like a stone upon my breast
And I wonder, mother, wonder
Why it is I cannot rest

All the day while you were working
As I lay upon my bed
I was trying to be patient
And to think of what you said

Just before the lamps were lighted
Just before the children came
While the room was very quiet
I heard someone call my name

All at once a window opened
On a field of lambs and sheep
Some were at the brook a-drinking
Some were lying fast asleep

In a moment I was looking
On a world so bright and fair
Which was filled with little children
And they seemed so happy there

They were singing oh so sweetly
Sweetest songs I've ever heard
They were singing sweeter mother
Than our darling little birds

Come up here, my little Bessie
Come up here, and live with me
Where little children never suffer
Through the long eternity

In the solemn hour of midnight
In the silence long and deep
Lying on her mother's bosom
Little Bessie fell asleep

Now up yonder at the portals
That are shining very fair
Little Bessie now is tended
By her Savior's loving care