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The Last Rose of Summer
‘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,
And give sigh for sigh,
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I’ll not leave thee thou lone one,
To pine on the stem;
Since the lovely are sleeping,
Go sleep there with them.
Thus kindly I scatter
Thy leaves on the bed,
Where thy mates of the garden
Lie scentless and dead.
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So soon may I follow,
When friendships decay,
And from love’s shining circle
The gems drop away.
When true hearts lie wither’d,
And fond ones are flown,
Oh! who would inhabit
This bleak world alone."
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