Sweet Sister Temperance

Sweet Sister Temperance

She of the model-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 merry schemes

For great and small and all things in between

For future and happiness

In a knot of blue field violets

For her glory and her power

She found in her final hour

The great and small and all in between

Sweet Sister Temperance

She of the model-hearted innocence

So eloquent in her mute despair

With two smooth bands of reddish hair

Oh, can see the consequence

Of her endless virtue is penitence

In a scarlet letter all her tailored deed

With two smooth bands of reddish hair

"Poor defeated, I" she cried, "keep green in memory"

"Poor defeated, I" she cried, "keep green in memory"

We had just laid out the garden

Handsome more so now than ever

And exquisite cleanness showing

In diamond square

She kept us enraptured

Gently captured by her tender emotion

Wildflowers growing, we strode a moonlit path

In silent pairs

But sweet Sister Temperance

She of the model-hearted innocence

So eloquent in her mute despair

With two smooth bands of reddish hair

Oh, can see the consequence

Of her endless virtue is penitence

In a scarlet letter all her tailored deed

With two smooth bands of reddish hair

In a scarlet letter all her tailored deed

With two smooth bands of reddish hair

Home is so far from home

Home is so far from home

Home is so far from home