crossed

Mis à jour: 18 mai 2025

And when they met me, as they saw Their woe had touched my sympathies, The oldest turned to me and cried: "Oh, do you know where Heaven is? "Our father died a year ago, And mother told us, when he died, That he had crossed a river deep, And Heaven was on the other side. And when we asked her where he was, She always said: "In Heaven, I know"; And told us we could go to him.

Ernest Michel - À travers l'hémisphère sud, ou Mon second voyage autour du monde: Tome 2; Équateur, Panama, Antilles, Mexique, Îles Sandwich,: Nouvelle-Zélande, Tasmanie, Australie.