[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…