SISTER ANNIE.

Southland Times, Volume VI, Issue 506, 2 July 1866, Page 3

SISTER ANNIE.

By Johk G-. Smith, author of " English Lyrics/ " Doric Lays," Cliurcbyard Monodies," &c. O ! the antique garden chair, Sister Annie, O ! the fiow'rels bright and fair, "Which shed tbeir intense there On tbe summer' 6 balmy air, Sister Annie. There often side by side, Sister Annie, At the gloaming's dewy tide We watched the night-star glide Like the eye of Eastern bride, Sister Annie. And we heard the curfen knell, Sistt r Annie, Where the deepening shadows fell On the heathflower's drooping bell Where the laries love to dwell, Sister Annie. We drank from one rV-'.-- 3*l •':-.;:-. TTe ?,,-,..*.■ ;.'■ - ..... vl'i./;'!: hg.-.u; Sister Annie. Long years have fled away, Sister Annie, Since we were wont to stray Where tlie silver moonbeams play On the lake and mountain gray, Sister Annie. And now I wander lone. Sister Annie, And echo back tbe tone Of the hollow breeze's moan For the pleasures fled and gone, Sister Annie. O ! the dreary, dreary hours, Sister Annie, O ! the lonesome leafless bowers, 0 ! the withered waste of flowers, 0! the sorrow's burning showers, Slate? Annie, 01 the anguish ftnd the pain, Sister AnnieThat quiver through ray brain With aspiration!) va,m, We will novsr swot again, ! Si-twAnnk*-