Going to Heaven — Bury Teeth

Going to Heaven! ¹
I don't know when－
Pray do not ask me how!
Indeed I'm too astonished
To think of answering you! ⁵
Going to Heaven!
How dim it sounds!
And yet it will be done
As sure as flocks go home at night
Unto the Shepherd's arm!

Perhaps you're going too! ¹¹
Who knows?
If you should get there first
Save just a little space for me
Close to the two I lost－ ¹⁵
The smallest "Robe" will fit me
And just a bit of "Crown"－
For you know we do not mind our dress
When we are going home－

I'm glad I don't believe it ²⁰
For it would stop my breath－
And I'd like to look a little more
At such a curious Earth!
I'm glad they did believe it
Whom I have never found ²⁵
Since the might Autumn afternoon
I left them in the ground.

(F.128/J.79)

[1] Heaven:: name of a dental clinic.
[2–5] astonished:: she didn't like to go.
[8, 9] will be done, flocks:: to see a dentist, a must for children though they don't like.
[10] Shepherd's arm:: a dentist's arm.
[15] two I lost:: the seat in the clinic where her last two teeth were drawn.
[16] smallest:: the lightest in voice and act. Robe:: a profession with robe, dental surgeon.
[17] Crown:: an artificial structure made to cover the natural crown of a tooth (OED 28b).
[19] believe it:: to believe the teeth superstition that witches would curse the children with their lost teeth.
[24, 27] they did believe it, in the ground:: the superstition that teeth buried in the ground would let the new ones grow, and prevent the witches putting a curse on the child.