Oh the years creep slowly by Lorena The snow is on the ground again The sun's low down in the sky Lorena The frost gleams where the flowers have been But the heart beats on as warmly now As when the summer days were nigh Oh the sun can never dip so low To be down in Affection's cloudless sky A hundred months have passed Lorena Since last I held that hand in mine And felt the pulse beat fast Lorena Though mine beat faster far than thine A hundred months 'twas flowery May When up that hilly slope we'd climb To watch the dying of the day And hear the distant church bells chime We loved each other then, Lorena Far more than we ever dared to tell And what we might have been Lorena Had our lovings prospered well Then 'tis part the years roll on I'll not call up their shadowy form I'll say to them, lost years sleep on! Sleep on, heed life's pelting storms