Thomas Moore Quotes on Nature
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Faintly as tolls the evening chime, Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time.
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'Tis the last rose of Summer, Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone.
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There's a bower of roses by Bendemeer's stream, And the nightingale sings round it all the day long; In the time of my childhood 'twas like a sweet dream, To sit in the roses and hear the bird's song.
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Some flow'rets of Eden ye still inherit, But the trail of the serpent is over them all.
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Oh! ever thus from childhood's hour I've seen my fondest hopes decay; I never loved a tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away. I never nurst a dear gazelle To glad me with its soft black eye But when it came to know me well And love me it was sure to die!