When I Saw You Last, Rose


    By Austin Dobson


    When I saw you last, Rose,


    You were only so high;-


    How fast the time goes!


    Like a bud ere it blows,


    You just peeped at the sky,


    When I saw you last, Rose!


    Now your petals unclose,


    Now your May-time is nigh;-


    How fast the time goes!


    And a life,-how it grows!


    You were scarcely so shy


    When I saw you last, Rose!


    In your bosom it shows


    There''s a guest on the sly;


    How fast the time goes!


    Is it Cupid? Who knows!


    Yet you used not to sigh,


    When I saw you last, Rose;-


    How fast the time goes!