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!