 | Edward Allen Talbot - Canada - 1824 - 450 pages
...the St. Lawrence, endeavoured, a- he says, to harmonize this air, by writing the following stanzas : 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... | |
 | Edward Allen Talbot - Canada - 1824 - 452 pages
...Lawrence, endeavoured, as he says, to harmonize this air, by writing the following stanzas : FAIXTLY as tolls the evening chime, Our voices keep tune,...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... | |
 | Cabinet - Literature - 1824 - 440 pages
...affectionately, (Signed) WINEFRED NITHSDALE. THE FALLS OF OHIOPYLE. From " December Talet." Blow breezes, blow ! the stream runs fast, The rapids are near, and the daylight's past ! ON the west of the AUeghany mountains rise the branches of the Youghiogeny river. The surrounding... | |
 | Thomas Moore - Irish literature - 1825 - 310 pages
...! 1 A CANADIAN BOAT SONG. OS THE RIVER ST. LAWRENCE"" lilt remigcm eantus hortatur. — Qumttluxn. FAINTLY as tolls the evening chime, Our voices keep tune, and our oars keep i in * I wrote these words to an air which our bo? men sang to us very frequently. The wind was unfavourable... | |
 | Thomas Moore - Irish literature - 1825 - 340 pages
...! L A CANADIAN BOAT-SONG. WRITTEN ON THE RIVER ST. LAWRENCE.* ET REM1OEM CANTUS HORTATUR. i/iii ii as tolls the evening chime, Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time, * 1 wrote these words to an air, which our boatmen sung to us very frequently. The wind was so unfavourable,... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1827 - 426 pages
...tremble there ! A CANADIAN HOAT-SOXG. WRITTEN ON THE RIVER ST.El rrovjj<-m cumul liorleiur. (¿tUTI LU». FAINTLY as tolls the evening chime, Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time. ' I wrote ihnr word« to »n air which our boat-men ionj lo u« »*r» rri><|u«nilf. TUc wind «i»... | |
 | Basil Hall - Atlantic States - 1829 - 492 pages
...such verse, best knows how to draw all the world in his train, as willing worshippers of his genius. " Faintly as tolls the evening chime,' Our voices keep tune, and our oars keep time • » » Utawa's tide ! this trembling moon Shall see us float o'er thy surges soon. Saint of this... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1829 - 456 pages
...there! A CANADIAN BOAT-SONG. WBiTTKH ON THE »IV« ST-LIWUHCB. ' El cuUU bominr. QflllTILIAl. FAIKTLT as tolls the evening chime, Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time. 1 1 wrtt« (Ьмв wonli to » «Ir whtcb «§r boatmm ивц to « f*ry frequently. The wind wm ••>... | |
 | 1854
...Anne, the patroness of the Canadian voyagcurs, 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 wa> here the boatmen made confessiop, and offered up their TOWS, previous... | |
 | English poetry - 1831 - 272 pages
...of this Green Isle ! hear our prayer, Grant us cool heavens and favoring air ! Blow, breezes, blow, the stream runs fast, The rapids are near and the day-light's past. THE MURDERED TRAVELLER. LOUD blew the wind across the heath, And summon'd forth the fiends of death,... | |
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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. 
