Sweet Sister Temperance

Sweet Sister Temperance
She of the Marble-hearted innocence
So eloquent in her mute despair-with two smooth bands of reddish hair
By some freak of fortune, she fainted while baking in the kitchen
Overturning all her airy schemes
For great and small and all that’s in-between;
For future happiness in a knot of blue field violets
For her glory and her power, which she found in her final hour
Great and small and all in-between
Sweet Sister Temperance
She of the Marble-hearted innocence
So eloquent in her mute despair-with two smooth bands of reddish hair
One can see the consequence of her endless, virtuous penitence
In a scarlet letter or a tender tear, in two smooth bands of reddish hair
«Poor defeated, I,» she cried, «Keep green my memory.»
«Poor defeated, I,» she cried, «Keep green my memory.»
We had just laid out the garden, handsome more so now than ever
An exquisite cleanness showing in the diamond squares
She kept us enraptured, gently captured by a tender emotion
Wild flowers growing. We strode a moonlit path
In silent pairs. (Chorus…)
Home is so far from Home