 FAINTLY as tolls the evening chime Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time. Soon as the woods on shore look dim, We'll sing at St. Ann's our parting hymn. "Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, 'The rapids are near and the daylight's past.  Epistles, Odes, and Other Poems - Halaman 135oleh Thomas Moore - 1807Tampilan utuh - Tentang buku ini
 | John Charles Curtis - 1863 - 178 halaman
...But, when the wind blows off the shore, Oh ! sweetly we'll rest our weary oar. Blow, breezes, blow ! the stream runs fast, The rapids are near, and the daylight's past ! Utawas tide ! this trembling moon Shall see us float over thy surges soon. Saint of this green isle... | |
 | Coventry Patmore - 1863 - 390 halaman
...keep time. Soon as the woods on the shore look dim, We 'll sing at St. Anne's our parting hymn. Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, The Rapids are near and the daylight 's past. Why should we yet our sail unfurl ? There is not a breath the blue wave to curl ;... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1863 - 580 halaman
...oars keep time. Soon as the woods on shore look dim, We '11 sing at St Ann's our parting hymn. Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, The rapids are near, and the day-light 's past ! Why should we yet our sail unfurl ? There is not a breath the blue wave to curl... | |
 | 1864 - 352 halaman
...oars keep time ; Soon as the woods on shore look dim, "We'll sing at St. Anne's our parting hymn. Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, The Rapids are...oar. Blow, breezes, blow, the stream runs fast, The Eapids are near and the daylight's past. * The voyageurn, in passing the Rapids of St. Anne, were formerly... | |
 | George Ernest Bulger - 1864 - 350 halaman
...oars keep time. Soon as the woods on shore look dim, We'll sing at St. Ann's our parting hymn. Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, The rapids are near and the daylight's past." MOORE — Canadian Boat Song. Prescott, 21st September. I HAVE just had an interview with Fisher, and... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1864 - 344 halaman
...startled by our singing. It was with new emphasis that we sang there the Canadian boat-song, — " Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, The Rapids are near and the daylight 's past ! " — •which describes precisely our own adventure, and was inspired by the experience... | |
 | 1865 - 436 halaman
...But, when the wind blows off the shore, Oh ! sweetly we 'll rest our weary oar. Blow, breezes, blow, the stream runs fast, The Rapids are near and the daylight's past. TJtawas' tide ! this trembling moon Shall see us float over thy surges soon. Saint of this green isle... | |
 | Thomas Rawlings - 1865 - 278 halaman
...this green isle, hear our prayers! Oh ! grant us cool heavens and fav'ring airs. Blow, breezes, blow, the stream runs fast, The Rapids are near, and the daylight's past." EMIGRATION. The Canadian Almanac for 1864 contains such a concise and excellent chapter on the reasons... | |
 | 1865 - 248 halaman
...the gentle airs of heaven the irielody whose burthen is — : ;' ! * « J.'.J* " Blow, breezes, blow, the stream runs fast, The Rapids are near, and the daylight's past." • 'Having arrived at one of the usual stopping places, named Oarillon, "where freight and passengers... | |
 | 1926 - 64 halaman
...determined work, and quick work. The nation seems to be swinging forward with this little song: Row, brothers, row, The stream runs fast, The rapids are near, And the day is far gone. This simple little song gives you an accurate picture of the national psychology at... | |
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