 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
 | D. M. R. Bentley - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 376 pages
...curfew tolls the knell of parting day" (117) - Moore echoes in his tone, diction, and time of day: Faintly as tolls the evening chime Our voices keep...fast, The Rapids are near and the daylight's past. (Poetical Works 124-25) A lengthy footnote giving details of the songs of the voyageurs on the St.... | |
 | Doug Gray, Peggy Gray - Ottawa River (Quebec and Ont.) Navigation - 1995 - 176 pages
...But, when the wind blows off thy 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!... | |
 | Catherine Parr Strickland Traill - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 414 pages
...hymn"] The first stanza of "A Canadian Boat Song" by Thomas Moore, first published in 1805, reads: FAINTLY as tolls the evening chime Our voices keep...fast, The Rapids are near and the daylight's past. See ThePoetical Works Of Thomas Moan. Ed. AD Godley. London et al: Humphrey Milford / Oxford University... | |
 | John Henricksson - Literary Collections - 2000 - 316 pages
...forth in song: "Back home again in Indiana." Singing while paddling was the manner of the voyageurs: Row brothers, row, the stream runs fast. The rapids are near and the daylight's past. There was the voyageur song about Thoda, who spurned three barons for a youth she loved: Oh, my heart... | |
 | Henry Coleman Folkard - Transportation - 2000 - 586 pages
...the Far West.' ' Soon as the woods on shore look dim. We'll sing ut St. Ann's oor parting hymn. Bow. brothers, row, the stream runs fast. The rapids are near and the daylight's past.' : Bireb-bark eanoes are also used by the Sioux lwho purehase them of the f'hippewaya) In gathering... | |
 | William Howarth - Nature - 2001 - 364 pages
...been 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 described precisely our own adventure, and was inspired by the experience of a similar kind of... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - Québec (Province) - 2006 - 196 pages
...allusion aux premiers vers de « A Canadian Boat Song / ( A passage down the River of St. Lawrence) // Faintly as tolls the evening chime / Our voices keep...fast, / The rapids are near and the daylight's past ». 77. Donnacona (t v. 1539), chef des Iroquois du SaintLaurent, représentant du village de Stadacona,... | |
 | John Donaldson - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 292 pages
...captured it in verse with his classic "Canadian Boat Song." It begins: Faintly as tolls the evening our voices Keep tune and our 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 near and the daylight's... | |
 | Donald Harman Akenson - Civilization, Modern - 2005 - 850 pages
...sensible route: a tour of the northern part of the United States and of the Canadas. Blow, breezes, blow, the stream runs fast. The rapids are near and the daylight's past. There are several more verses. Generations of Canadian school children come to hate his name, for they... | |
 | Walt Whitman - Literary Collections - 2007 - 308 pages
...cheering lay, hope ever sings us, Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.4 CANADIAN BOAT SONG. Faintly as tolls the evening chime, Our voices keep...tune and our oars keep time; Soon as the woods on the shore look dim, We'll sing at St. Ann's our parting hymn; Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast,... | |
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