In the heav’ns are parents single?
No, the thought makes reason stare;
Truth is reason—truth eternal
Tells me I’ve a mother there.
When I leave this frail existence—
When I lay this mortal by,
Father, mother, may I meet you
In your royal court on high?
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Source, in full
"My Father in Heaven", Times and Seasons (Nauvoo, IL), November 15, 1845, p. 1039, compiled in 1.14 of The First Fifty Years of Relief Society: Key Documents in Latter-day Saint Women's History (Church Historian's Press, 2016).
Notes from Wikiquote
"My Father in Heaven" provides the lyrics to the hymn "O My Father", still sung by Latter-day Saints