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  I love the way the tattered clouds

  Blow wind across the sky

  The summer goes and leaves me

  With a tear in my eye

  I'm taking off my winter clothes

  My garden knows what wrong

  The petals of my favourite rose

  In shadows dark and long

  Though every year, it's very clear

  I should be carrying on

  But I can be found in the garden

  Singing this song

  When the last rose of summer is gone

  The last rose of summer is gone, gone