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The Last Rose of Summer 
by Thomas Moore

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’TIS the last rose of summer 
Left blooming alone; 
All her lovely companions 
Are faded and gone; 
No flower of her kindred, 
No rosebud is nigh, 
To reflect back her blushes, 
To give sigh for sigh. 



I’ll not leave thee, thou lone one! 
To pine on the stem; 
Since the lovely are sleeping, 
Go, sleep thou with them. 
Thus kindly I scatter 
Thy leaves o’er the bed, 
Where thy mates of the garden 
Lie scentless and dead. 

So soon may I follow, 
When friendships decay, 
And from Love’s shining circle 
The gems drop away. 
When true hearts lie withered 
And fond ones are flown, 
Oh! who would inhabit 
This bleak world alone?

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Irish poet, friend of Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. Moore's writings range from lyric to satire, from prose romance to history and biography. His popular IRISH MELODIES appeared in ten parts between 1807 and 1835. 

Thomas Moore was born in Dublin as the son of a grocer. His background was poor and he never varnished it. In his poem 'Epitaph on a Tuft-Hunter' he mocked snobbery:

"Heaven grant him now some noble nook
For, rest his soul!
he'd rather be
Genteelly damn'd beside a Duke,
Than sav'd in vulgar company."
 

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