 | Asa Fitz - Hymns, English - 1855 - 200 pages
...voices keep tune and our oars 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 the daylight's past, The rapids are near and the daylight's past. 2 Why should we yet our sail unfurl ? There is not a breath... | |
 | N. Brittan, L. H. Sherwood - Hymns, English - 1855 - 400 pages
...Melodeon, 43. 2J vol. Social Choir, 112. Soon as the woods on the shore look dim, We '11 cheerfully sing our parting hymn ! Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, The rapids are near, and the daylight 's past — The rapids are near, and the daylight 's past. 2. Why should we yet our sails... | |
 | Henry Rowe Schoolcraft - Discoveries in geography - 1855 - 660 pages
...and we again embarked. Never did men more fully appreciate the melody of the Irish bard:— " Sweetly as tolls the evening chime, Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time." At half-past three the next morning, we found ourselves at the entrance to Lake St. Clair, thirty miles... | |
 | Amos Lawrence - Boston (Mass.) - 1855 - 396 pages
...evening chime, Our voices keep tune, and our 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, i The rapids are near, and daylight 'a past.' I first heard this song sung and played on the piano... | |
 | William S. Hunter - Ontario - 1855 - 118 pages
...Irish poet, Tom Moore, wrote in reference to its rapids his much admired " Canadian Boat Song": — " Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, The rapids are near, and the day light is past," &c. The steamer Lady Simpson is locked past the rapids, at St . Anne's, then continues... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1856 - 436 pages
...CANADIAN BOAT SONG. WRITTEN ON THE RIVER ST. LAWRENCE.* • Et remigem cantus hortatur. QOIHTIUAN. FAINTLY as tolls the evening chime Our voices keep...oars keep time. Soon as the woods on shore look dim, We '11 sing at St. Ann's our parting hymn.f * I wrote these words to an air which our boatmen sung... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1856 - 436 pages
...which is dedicated to the tutelar saint of voyagers." — Mackenzie, General History of the Fur Trade. Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, The Rapids are near and the daylight's p.ost. Why should we yet our sail unfurl ? There is not a breath the blue wave to curl. But, when the... | |
 | Thomas Moore - Ballads, English - 1856 - 296 pages
...our ours keep time. Soon as the woods on shore look dim, We *H slug at St. Ann's oar parting hymn.s Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, The Rapids are near, and the daylight 's past. obliged to row all the way. and we were fire days in descend* ing toe river from... | |
 | 1856 - 754 pages
...greon isle ! hear our prayors ; Oh ! grant us oool 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.... | |
 | John Disturnell - Champlain, Lake - 1857 - 412 pages
...CANADIAN BOAT SONG. BY THOMAS VOORZ. Faintly as tolls the evening chime, Our voices keep tune and onr 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... | |
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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. 
