By Henry DeLafayette Webster, 1824-1896.<\/strong><\/p>\nThe years are creeping slowly by, dear Paul
\nThe winters come and go:
\nThe wind sweeps past, with mournful cry, dear Paul,
\nAnd pelt my face with snow;
\nBut there’s no snow upon the heart, dear Paul,
\n‘Tis Summer always there;
\nThose early loves throw sunshine over all,
\nAnd sweeten mem’ries dear!<\/p>\n
I thought it easy to forget, dear Paul,
\nLife glow’d with youthful hope:
\nThe glorious future gleamed yet, dear Paul,
\nAnd bade us clamber up.
\nThey, frowning, said: it must not \u2014 cannot be:
\nBreak, now, the hopeless bands!
\nAnd, Paul, you know how well, that bitter day,
\nI bent to their commands!<\/p>\n
I’ve kept you ever in my heart, dear Paul,
\nThro’ years of good and ill;
\nOur SOULS could not be torn apart, dear Paul,
\nThey’re bound together still.
\nI never knew how dear you were to me,
\n‘Till I was left alone;
\nI thought my poor, poor heart would break, the day
\nThey told me you were gone.<\/p>\n
Perhaps we’ll never, never meet, dear Paul,
\nUpon this earth again!
\nBut THERE where happy Angels greet, dear Paul,
\nYou’ll meet Lorena there.
\nTogether, up the ever-shining way,
\nWe’ll press with hoping heart
\nTogether thro’ the bright eternal day,
\nAnd never more to part!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Lorena’s Reply was also written by Reverend H. D. L. Webster and was published in 1863, six years after Lorena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,79,141,29,142,1],"tags":[80,195,83,84],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-confederate","category-music","category-notes-and-facts","category-other","category-tweetposts","category-uncategorized","tag-civil-war-music","tag-confederate","tag-lorena","tag-lorenas-reply"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nellaware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nellaware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nellaware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nellaware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nellaware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.nellaware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2197,"href":"http:\/\/www.nellaware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions\/2197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nellaware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nellaware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nellaware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}