...faded and gone; No flower of its kindred, no rosebud is nigh, To reflect back its blushes, or heave sigh for sigh. I'll not leave thee, thou lone one,...leaves o'er the bed, Where thy mates of the garden lye senseless and dead. So soon may I follow when friendships decay And from love's shining circle...

...again For her soul gives me sigh for sigh.1* In Tom Moore's "Last Rose of Summer" we find it thus, No flower of her kindred, No rose-bud is nigh, To reflect back her blushes Or give sigh for sigh. The author of the lines which follow I cannot name just now, but I give them because there are doubtless...

...lovely eompanious Are faded and gone ; No flower of her kindred;, No rose-bnd is nigh, To refleet haek her blushes, Or give sigh for sigh . I'll not leave thee, thou lone one I To pine on the stem; Sinee the lovely are sleeping, Go, sleep thou with them. Thus kindly I seatter...

...Reviewer Reviewed," Poe about 1849 pointed out the parallel in Thomas Moore's "Last Rose of Summer": No flower of her kindred, No rosebud is nigh, To reflect back her blushes And give sigh for sigh. 19 Astartc is the Phoenician goddess sometimes identified with the moon and...

...lone member of the audience" (Darkness Visible, 65). 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! 6 ' It would be unlike Humphrey to have his character act upon sentiments contained in such a poem....

..." '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, Or give sigh for sigh." Not a sigh was to be heard from the spellbound audience. Suzette awaited the interlude, then continued...