Since a whole lot of us are enjoying, Do you Like Brahms……here’s a piece of classical violin solo that is my favorite…Ernst’s “The Last Rose of Summer”, This is based on a variations on the Irish folk melody of Thomas Moore’s poem of the same name …Ernst composed it when his health was in decline and he could no longer perform.
This is the poem; I hope you all enjoy this.

‘Tis the last rose of summer,
Left blooming alone;
All her lovely companions
Are faded and gone;
No flower of her kindred,
No rose-bud is nigh,
To reflect back her blushes
Or 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 wither’d,
And fond ones are flown,
Oh! who would inhabit
This bleak world alone?