Please, God, if You should hear a scratch on Eden's Gate tonight

Please, God, if You should hear a scratch on Eden's Gate tonight,

A gentle whine, a muffled bark; have Peter take a light

And open up the Pearly Gates and call her Spirit in,

For I think she lived in Heaven once; please take her back again.

 

She may have been a mongrel, without a pedigree,

Yet she was noble, kind and good; I think You will agree

That she'll be very useful where the souls of children play.

She'll romp with them, and see, Dear God, they do not go astray.

 

Just tell her that we're sorry that we could not pat her head,

And whisper how we loved here 'ere her Spirit fled.

I pray that when death beckons, and my soul surmounts life's fog,

I'll rate a place in Heaven, Dear God, beside our dog ...

 

(Author unknown)