MY NAME IS ANNIE MAUNDER

My Name is…

MY NAME IS ANNIE MAUNDER

FROM SWEET STRABANE I CAME

MY FATHER WAS BILL RUSSELL

A FINE PRESBYTERIAN

 

HER FRIENDS CALLED MAMMY HESSEY

SHE BORE HIM SIX STRONG WEANS

SHE EDUCATED ALL O F US

AT HOME “THE MANSE” IT’S NAME

 

MATHEMATICS WAS MY LOVE

ALL DETAILS TO AND FRO

IN BELFAST TOWN I DID EXAMS

AT LADIES SCHOOL   – THEN

WITH SCOLARSHIPS

TO CAMBRIDGE TOWN DID GO

 

SINTON COLLEGE WAS MY HOME

FOR TWO FINE YEARS AND MORE

THE FIRST OF MY SEX FROM IRELAND

A SENIOR RANK TO EARN

THEN I GOT WORK IN GREENWICH

I TOOK PHOTOS OF THE SUN

AND SUNSPOTS AND ECLIPSES

AND CORONAS, ALSO PLUMES

AND I BEGAN TO EDIT, AN ASTROMICAL BRAND

 

OI MARRIED WALTER, SOUL MATE, STAR MAN

WE TRAVELLED NORTH AND SOUTH AND EAST AND WEST

TOGETHER HAND IN HAND

WE SHARED A COMMON PASSION

AT HOME AND IN FAR LANDS

THE SUN, THE, MOON, THE STARS, THE SKIES

ALL CONSTELLATIONS IN GOD’S GREAT PLAN

 

WITHOUT SOUBT THE NAME OF ANNIE MAUNDER FROM DERRY ROAD STRABANE IS TRULY WRITTEN IN THE STARS