today’s song

I’ve just been to the community center
to attend a meeting as a delegate of Harmonica Circle.

It has been cloudy all day.

I feel a little bit lonely on such a day like this.

Oh, I see a rose blooming alone!

I was singing an English song--'Tis the Last Rose of Summer
--「庭の千草」in Japanese.

The song made me evev more lonely.

'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,
To 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,
From Love's shining circle
The gems drop away.
When true hearts lie withered
And fond ones are flown,
Oh! who would inhabit,
This bleak world alone?