Charlotte's Music

The Last Rose Of Summer

from the album 'Charlotte Church'

The last rose of Summer,
Lets blooming alone,
All her lovely companions
Are faded and gone.
No flow'r of her kindred
No rosebud is nigh
To reflect back her blushes,
O give sigh for sigh.

I'll not leave thee, thou lone one,
To pine to the stern,
Since the lovely are sleeping,
Go, sleep thou with them.

Thus kindly I'll 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 the hearts lie wither'd

And fond ones are flow'n
Oh' who would inhabit
This bleak world alone?