The end of summer

[Stillhomewardbound]

The Walter Houston version was always a favourite of my dad's.

Oh, the days dwindle down, to a precious few ... November, December ... but these few vintag days I'll spend with you.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

working in Derry & Toms, darkening evenings, drinking coffee with young ladies ..... juke box ...oh dear .... and yep it was raining ...

[Stillhomewardbound]

The Last Rose of Summer by Thomas Moore


'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,
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?

[salymap]

The music hire library I worked in at 18 for under £5 a week for a 5 1/2 day week, 2 weeks holiday a year,
made us fix our hols at the beginning of the year. I always picked the first weeks of June and September and they were alwaysfine and sunny. Or so it seems now. It was fun but hard work though.

[Serial_Apologist]

The Walter Houston version was always a favourite of my dad's.

Oh, the days dwindle down, to a precious few ... November, December ... but these few vintag days I'll spend with you.

No chance of that I think, SHB!

[Nick Armstrong]

working in Derry & Toms, darkening evenings, drinking coffee with young ladies ..... juke box ...oh dear .... and yep it was raining ...

What is the significance of your italicised young ladies, Cal?



(see original post - everything's italicised in the quote boxes...)

[salymap]

I saw old Autumn in the misty morn
Stand Shadowless like Silence, listening
To Silence.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

..er ... i was a young man Caliban ... and highly enamoured of one particular young lady ....... we were both in our first summer vacation jobs .... £6 plus commission a week as i recall .... enough for anything in '61 eh ... [i saved up £32 and bought my double bass and began having adventures ....]

[greenilex]

(Not a particularly quick reply...) the dying fall has a certain appeal, but more important as I am rather greedy is the cornucopia of delicious food plants we are blessed with at this time of year.

Town mouse or country mouse? Both are fat and flourishing just now.

[gradus]

......as our cats delight in demonstrating.

[ahinton]

Summer? I'm still awaiting the beginning; the fact of its lease having all too short a date is only too obvious and what seems instead to be in prospect is as depressing as can be - but then I've never been any good at the British "autumn", let alone its interminable and so often unseasonably prevalent "winter"...

[Serial_Apologist]

(Not a particularly quick reply...) the dying fall has a certain appeal, but more important as I am rather greedy is the cornucopia of delicious food plants we are blessed with at this time of year.

Town mouse or country mouse? Both are fat and flourishing just now.

Exceptionally plentiful blackberries everywhere right now - but no one other than me picking them, apparently! Don't they realise there's a free supply of Vitamin C on offer out there??

[Roehre]

Exceptionally plentiful blackberries everywhere right now - but no one other than me picking them, apparently! Don't they realise there's a free supply of Vitamin C on offer out there??

And you can use them fresh with muesli and yogurt or on cheese cake, make jam of them or press blackberry juice. Hmmmmmmmmm

[Petrushka]

Summer? I'm still awaiting the beginning; its lease having all too shor a date is only too obvious and what seems instead to be in prospect is as depressing as can be - but then I've never been any good at the British "autumn", let alone its interminable and so often unseasonably prevalent "winter"...

Ditto to all of that. I like Byron's line that 'the English winter ends in July only to recommence in August'.

[gurnemanz]

Ditto to all of that. I like Byron's line that 'the English winter ends in July only to recommence in August'.

Made me think of Flanders and Swann ...... "bloody January again".