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. Littell's Living Age - Page 4131881Full view - About this book
| Thomas Moore - English poetry - 1806 - 328 pages
...tres-bien monies ; 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 ! Why should we yet our sail unfurl ? There is not a breath the blue wave to curl 1... | |
| Thomas Moore - Irish poetry - 1807 - 214 pages
...above stanzas are supposed to be sung by those voyageurs, who go to the Grande Portage by the UtaRow, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, The rapids are near and the day-light's past ! Why should we yet our sail unfurl ? There is not a breath the blue wave to curl... | |
| Oxford city, Holywell music room - 1808 - 170 pages
...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 day-light's past. R a Why should we yet our sail unfurl ? There is not a breath the blue wave to curl... | |
| English poetry - 1821 - 270 pages
...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. Why should we yet our sail unfurl ? There is not a breath the blue wave to curl ;... | |
| Renfrew county - 1821 - 542 pages
...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 day-light's past! * This Canadian boat-song, was written by Thomas Moore, Esq; to an air, aitng by... | |
| American wit and humor - 1821 - 154 pages
...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, Why should we yet our sail unfurl ? There is not a breath the blue wave to curl ;... | |
| John Morison Duncan - Atlantic States - 1823 - 436 pages
...across the confined pass, if I may so call it, and the burden of Moore's song was forcibly suggested. " Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, The rapids are near and the day light's past !" Though the afternoon had been very hot, and the sun's rays, reflected from the... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1823 - 344 pages
...verse was, VOL. It. 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 1 Why should we yet our sail unfurl ? There is not a breath the blue wave to curl !... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1823 - 348 pages
...verse was, VOL. II. i2 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 ! Why should we yet our sail unfurl ? There is not a breath the blue wave to .curl... | |
| Edward Allen Talbot - Canada - 1824 - 450 pages
...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 day -light's pa>t ! Why should we our sail unfurl ? There is not a breath the blue wave to curl ; But... | |
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