Helen Burns

Gone away, gone away forever

Not to come back home

I did stay all the night through with you

Without knowing you'd gone

Without time for the world to breathe on

The changing dust it woke

Glimpses of all the life you poured out

Till the vessel broke

Don't know if I'll see you

When it's my turn to come home

Don't know if I'll see you

But I hope so, but I hope so

Parting now at our own Grey Havens

The words you left the debris

So be still, knowing that He'll see you across the Sea

Don't know if I'll see you

When it's my turn to come home

Don't know if I'll see you

But I hope so, but I hope so

To be woken from the long sleep

Of this world's night

Don't know if I'll see you

When it's my turn to come home

Don't know if I'll see you

But I hope so, but I hope so