Lorena

The years creep slowly by, Lorena
 The snow is on the grass again
 The sun's low down the sky, Lorena
 The frost gleams where the flowers have been
 But the heart throbs on as warmly now
 As when the summer days were nigh
 Oh, the sun can never dip so low
 A-down affection's cloudless sky
 Oh, the sun can never dip so low
 A-down affection's cloudless sky
 We loved each other then, Lorena
 More than we ever dared to tell
 And what we might have been, Lorena
 Had but our lovings prospered well
 But then, 'tis past, the years have gone
 And I'll not call up their shadowy forms
 I'll say to them "Lost years, sleep on!
 Sleep on! nor heed life's pelting storm"
 I'll say to them "Lost years, sleep on!
 Sleep on! nor heed life's pelting storm"
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 It matters little now, Lorena
 The past is in the eternal past
 Our heads will soon lie low, Lorena
 Life's tide is ebbing out so fast
 There is a Future! O, thank God!
 Of life this is so small a part!
 'Tis dust to dust beneath the sod
 But there, up there, 'tis heart to heart
 'Tis dust to dust beneath the sod
 But there, up there, 'tis heart to heart