[Verse 1]
The hours I spent with thee, dear heart
Are as a string of pearls to me
I count them over every one apart
My rosary, my rosary!
[Verse 2]
Each hour a pearl, each pearl a prayer
To still a heart in absence wrung
I tell each bead unto the end
And there a cross is hung!
[Verse 3]
O memories that bless and burn!
O barren gain and bitter loss!
I kiss each bead, and strive at last to learn
To kiss the cross, sweetheart!
To kiss the cross
all Marianna Johnson songs all songs from 1921