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The Last Rose of Summer

"The Last Rose of Summer" is a poem by the Irish poet Thomas Moore. He wrote it in 1805, while staying at Jenkinstown Park in County Kilkenny, Ireland, where he was said to have been inspired by a specimen of Rosa 'Old Blush'. The poem is set to a traditional tune called "Aislean an Oigfear", or "The Young Man's Dream", which was transcribed by Edward Bunting in 1792, based on a performance by harper Denis Hempson at the Belfast Harp Festival. The poem and the tune together were published in December 1813 in volume 5 of Thomas Moore's A Selection of Irish Melodies. The original piano accompaniment was written by John Andrew Stevenson, several other arrangements followed in the 19th and 20th centuries.


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“Tis the last rose of Summer,
Left blooming alone;
All her lovely companions
Are faded and gone.”

The Last Rose of Summer, st. 1.
Irish Melodies http://www.musicanet.org/robokopp/moore.html (1807–1834)

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“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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