Lorena | The Confederacy by Richard Bales

4. Lorena--Baritone Solo with Flute, Harp, and Strings. Rev. H. D. L. Webster wrote the poem and J. P. Webster the music for this lovely ballad. Although Lorena was published in Chicago in 1857, it became so popular in the South as to be virtually a Confederate song by the time the War came. Many Southern girls were named Lorena, and today the custom is occasionally followed today. Of the six stanzas, all florid in their rhetoric, the first, and by far the best, is used. 1. 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 flow'rs 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, Adown affection's cloudless sky.