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. Melodies, Songs, Sacred Songs, and National Airs - Page 83by Thomas Moore - 1825 - 300 pagesFull view - About this book
| Biography - 1852 - 318 pages
...green isle ! hear our prayers ; Oh ! grant us cool heavens and favouring airs. Blow, breezes, blow ! the stream runs fast, The rapids are near, and the daylight's past ! NOTE. — At the rapid of St. Ann they are obliged to take out part, if not the whole, of their lading.... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1853 - 790 pages
...A CANADIAN BOAT SONG. WRITTEN ОЯ THE RIVER ST. LAWRENCE.' Et remlgem cantns hortatur. QUINTILIAM FAINTLY as tolls the evening chime Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time. Soon as tho woods on shore look dim, We'll sing at St. Ann's our parting hymn.3 Row, brothers, голу, the... | |
| J. P. Smith - Great Britain - 1853 - 384 pages
...•" I swear, dear lady, sleep shall not visit my eyelids till you have quitted Blois !" CHAPTER V. Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast ; The rapids are near, and the daylight's past. CAN.ADIAX BOAT Soxo. So convinced was the Count of Blois that the Duchess of Aquitaine was his willing... | |
| Arts - 1853 - 672 pages
...le Saiat-Lautenjl 1«W chapelle de sainte Anne. Faintly as tolls thé evening chimc Our voices kcep tune and our oars k,eep time Soon as the woods on shore look dîme We '11 sing at SU.Ànn's our parting hyinp. Celte même figure de saint Biaise, les Ragusius... | |
| Jean Marie Xavier Marmier - Adriatic Sea Region - 1854 - 440 pages
...rappeler sans une affectueuse émotion, saluent encore sur le Saint-Laurent leur chapelle de Sainte-Anne. Faintly as tolls the evening chime Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time Soon as thé woods on shore look dime We '11 sing at. St. Ann's our parting hymn. Cette même figure de saint... | |
| Asa Fitz - Hymns, English - 1854 - 204 pages
...And bid the boisterous main adieu ! And bid the boisterous main adieu ! CLI. Canadian Boat Song. 1 Faintly as tolls the evening chime, Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time; Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time; Soon as the woods on shore look dim, We'll cheerfully... | |
| Amos Lawrence - Boston (Mass.) - 1855 - 346 pages
...and the nation. I think him a model officer and a good Christian." "Oct. 11.— CANADIAN BOAT-SONG. ' Faintly, as tolls the evening chime, Our voices keep...look dim, We'll sing at St. Ann's our parting hymn. Eow, brothers, row : the stream runs fast, The rapids are near, and daylight's past.' I first heard... | |
| lord William Pitt Lennox - 1855 - 306 pages
...Anne, the patroness of the Canadian voyageurs, immortalized by Moore in those exquisite lines — ' Faintly as tolls the evening chime, Our voices keep...as the woods on shore look dim, We'll sing at St. Anne's our parting hymn.' It was here the boatmen made confession, and offered up their vows, previous... | |
| John Disturnell - Canada - 1855 - 272 pages
...where the poet Moore located the scene of his admired Canadian Boat Song,' a stanza of which we copy : Faintly as tolls the evening chime, Our voices keep...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 near, and the day-light's... | |
| Elias Nason - Children's songs - 1855 - 134 pages
...cannot annoy, I will be glad in Thee. 118 Canadian Boat Song. [8s & 9s.] TUNE— "Canadian Boat Song." 1 FAINTLY as tolls the evening chime, Our voices keep...time ; Soon as the woods on shore look dim, We'll cheerfully sing our parting hymn ; Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, The rapids are near, and... | |
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