The Last Rose of Summer es un poema del irlandés Thomas Moore escrito en 1805, dos años más tarde Sir John Andrew Stevenson le pondría música al poema. Fue publicado en 1813 en la colección «A Section of Irish Melodies»
Y aquí interpretado por el grupo Clannad:
The Last Rose of Summer
Thomas Moore (1779–1852)
’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?
Thomas Moore, English Poetry II: From Collins to Fitzgerald, The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
