The last rose of summer (John Andrew Stevenson)

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Contributor: Stan Sanderson (added 2008-08-02).   Score information: Letter, 2 pages,       Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: From the Mutopia Project. - Source: Unknown - Mutopia-2004/03/16-434 - Edition in D Major.

General Information

Title: The Last Rose of Summer
Composer: John Andrew Stevenson
(Sir) Lyricist: Thomas Moore (1779-1852)

Number of voices: 1v   Voicing: Soprano Solo
Genre: Secular, Art song

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

Published:

External websites:

• Entry at Wikipedia for this composer.
• Entry at Wikipedia for this song.
• Entry at "Art Song Central".

Original text and translations

English text

‘Tis the last rose of summer,

Left blooming all alone,

All her lovely companions

Are faded and gone.

No flower of her kindred,

No rose bud is nigh,

To reflect back her blushes,

Or 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?