Lorena - 97th Regimental String Band.mp3

Lorena - 97th Regimental String Band.mp3
Lorena - 97th Regimental String Band
[00:00.000] 作曲 : Traditio...
[00:00.000] 作曲 : Traditional Song
[00:11.280]The years creep slowly by, Lorena,
[00:16.971]The snow is on the grass again.
[00:23.083]The sun’s low down the sky, Lorena,
[00:29.031]The frost gleams where the flow’rs have been.
[00:34.893]But the heart throbs on as warmly now,
[00:40.777]As when the summer days were nigh.
[00:46.657]Oh, the sun can never dip so low
[00:52.346]A-down affection’s cloudless sky.
[00:58.436]A hundred months have passed, Lorena,
[01:04.288]Since last I held that hand in mine,
[01:10.277]And felt the pulse beat fast, Lorena,
[01:16.156]Though mine beat faster far than thine.
[01:22.008]A hundred months, ’twas flowery May,
[01:27.870]When up the hilly slope we climbed,
[01:33.483]To watch the dying of the day,
[01:39.163]And hear the distant church bells chime.
[01:45.069]We loved each other then, Lorena,
[01:51.180]More than we ever dared to tell;
[01:56.855]And what we might have been, Lorena,
[02:02.739]Had but our lovings prospered well —
[02:08.696]But then, ’tis past, the years are gone,
[02:14.574]I’ll not call up their shadowy forms;
[02:20.426]I’ll say to them, “Lost years, sleep on!
[02:26.120]Sleep on! nor heed life’s pelting storms.”
[02:31.973]The story of that past, Lorena,
[02:38.102]Alas! I care not to repeat,
[02:43.965]The hopes that could not last, Lorena,
[02:49.599]They lived, but only lived to cheat.
[02:55.492]I would not cause e’en one regret
[03:01.448]To rankle in your bosom now;
[03:07.067]For “if we try we may forget,”
[03:13.007]Were words of thine long years ago.
[03:18.858]Yes, these were words of thine, Lorena,
[03:24.751]They're within my memory yet;
[03:30.858]They touched some tender chords, Lorena,
[03:36.538]Which thrill and tremble with regret.
[03:42.181]‘Twas not thy woman’s heart that spoke;
[03:47.809]Thy heart was always true to me:
[03:53.802]A duty, stern and pressing, broke
[03:59.399]The tie which linked my soul with thee.
[04:05.292]It matters little now, Lorena,
[04:10.968]The past is in the eternal past;
[04:16.642]Our heads will soon lie low, Lorena,
[04:22.541]Life’s tide is ebbing out so fast.
[04:28.278]There is a Future! O, thank God!
[04:33.953]Of life this is so small a part!
[04:39.619]‘Tis dust to dust beneath the sod;
[04:45.543]But there, up there, ’tis heart to heart…
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