“When true hearts lie wither'd
And fond ones are flown,
Oh, who would inhabit
This bleak world alone?”

The Last Rose of Summer.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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Irish poet, singer and songwriter 1779–1852

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