What Is Paradise

What is Paradise,who live there

Are they farmers,do they hoe

Do they know that this is "Amherst"

And that I am coming too

Do they wear new shoes in Eden

Is it always pleasant there

Won't they scold us when we're hungry

Or tell God how cross we are

Are you sure there's such a person as a father in the sky

So if I get lost there ever

Or do what the nurse calls die

I shant walk the jasper barefoot

It's our clumsiness that save us

Our skills are leading us to hell

Why raising fears as empires

For they never are a remedy

There is another sky, serene and fair

And there is another sunshine

Though it be darkness there, never mind, never mind

Silent field and faded forest

Here is a brighter garden

Where not a frost has been

The paradise we're trying to reach

Is only right in front of us

Heaven we're trying to seek

Is by now offering us trust