<P> This poem is mentioned in Jules Verne's 1884 novel The Vanished Diamond (aka . The Southern Star), and by Wilkie Collins in The Moonstone (1868), in which Sergeant Cuff whistles the tune frequently . </P> <P> The song is mentioned by James Joyce in Ulysses . It is also referred to, disdainfully, in George Eliot's Middlemarch . </P> <P> The song also mentioned in Rupert Hughes's 1914 book by the same name, The Last Rose of Summer, and by Betty Smith in her 1943 novel A Tree Grows in Brooklyn . </P> <P> A British silent movie of The Last Rose of Summer made in 1920 stars Owen Nares and Daisy Burrell . </P>

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