High up in the courts of heaven today
a little dog angel waits;
With the other angels he will not play,
but he sits alone at the gates.
“For I know my master will come”
says he, “and when he comes
he will call for me.”
The other angels pass him by
as they hurry toward the throne,
And he watches them
with a wistful eye as he sits
at the gates alone.
“But I know if I just wait patiently
that someday my master will call for me.”
And his master, down on earth below,
as he sits in his easy chair,
Forgets sometimes,
and whispers low to the dog
who is not there.
And the little dog angel cocks
his ears and dreams
that his master’s voice he hears.
And when at last his master waits
outside in the dark and cold,
For the hand of death to open
the door that leads to those courts of gold,
He will hear a sound through
the gathering dark,
A little dog angel’s bark.