 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
 | 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,... | |
 | 1834 - 480 pages
...languish and perish. And look, without pity, on bcau'.y iu tears! CANADIAN BOAT SONÓ. (T. Moore.) FAINTLY as tolls the evening chime Our voices keep...parting hymn. Row, brothers, row, the stream runs last, The rapids are near, and the daylight's past. Why should we yet our fljúl unfurl ? There is... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1835 - 440 pages
...! A CANADIAN BOAT-SONG. WRITTEN ON THE RIVER ST. LAWRENCE.1 Et remigem cantus hortatur. Quintilian. FAINTLY as tolls the evening chime Our voices keep tune, and our oars keep time : 1 1 wrote these words to an air, which our boatmen sung to us very frequently. The wind was so unfavourable,... | |
 | 1835 - 320 pages
...is not spread, As it is in courtly places; But nature, o'er the spot, has shed CANADIAN BOAT SONG. FAINTLY as tolls the evening chime, Our voices keep tune, and our oars keep timeSoon as the woods on shore look dim, We'll sing, at Saint Ann's, our parting hymn How, brothers,... | |
 | James Connell (army surgeon.) - 1837 - 786 pages
...brothers, row, the stream rum fast, The rapids aren«ar,and the day -light's past ! Strollers. — Faintly as tolls the evening chime, Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time. Stage-Manager and Prompter. — Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, Tln: rapids are near, and... | |
 | 1862 - 678 pages
...the north of the city ; the other, taking a southerly course, meets the St. Lawrence at St. Anne's : Soon as the woods on shore look dim, We'll sing at St. Anne's our parting hymn. But " Ottawa's tide" refuses to fraternise with the St. Lawrence as long as... | |
 | 720 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 wai hers the bohtmsu mads confession, and offered up thbir yow»> previous... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1838 - 412 pages
...CANADIAN BOAT-SONG. WRITTEN ON THE RIVER ST. LAWRENCE.1 Et remigem cantin hnrtalur. FAINTLY as tolla the evening chime Our voices keep tune, and our oars keep time: -, 1 I wrote (hese words to an air, which our boatmen sung to us very frequently- The wind was во... | |
 | Priscilla Maden Watts - 1839 - 286 pages
...obey ; Oh ! sailor boy ! sailor boy — peace to thy soul ! A CANADIAN BOAT SONG. BY THOMAS MOORK. FAINTLY as tolls the evening chime, Our voices keep...oars keep time. Soon as the woods on shore look dim We sing at St. Ann's our parting hymn. Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, The rapids are near,... | |
 | 1840 - 378 pages
...soft as now it hangs o'er thee ! A CANADIAN BOAT-BONG. " Et remigem cantus hortatur." — Quintilian. 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 daylight's... | |
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