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