'TIS THE LAST ROSE OF SUMMER. A song written by Thomas Moore to the tune of ‘The Groves of Blarney
’; this again being possibly a variation of an older air called ‘The Young Man's dream,
’ which Moore has adapted to the words ‘As a beam on the face of the waters may glow.
’ Blarney, near Cork, became popular in 1788 or 1789, and it was then that the words of ‘The Groves of Blarney
’ were written...
