...the magnificent scenery of the St. Lawrence repays all such difficulties. POEMS RELATING TO AMERICA. Soon as the woods on shore look dim, We'll sing at St. Ann's our parting hymn.* Dans limit elicit tin j'ai rencontr£ Deux cavaliers tres-bien months ; And the refrain to every verse...

..." CANADIAN BOAT SONG. -WRITTEN ON THE RIVEK ST. LAWRENCE.* Et remigem cantus hortatur. QUINTILIAN. FAINTLY as tolls the evening chime Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time. * I wrote these words to an air which our boatmen sung to us frequently. The wind was so unfavourable...

...green isle ! hear our prayers, Oh ! grant us cool heavens and favouring airs. Blow, breezes, blow, the stream runs fast, The rapids are near, and the daylight's past ! EPISTLE TO THE LADY CHARLOTTE R WB— H. NOT many months have now been dream'd away Since yonder...

...Mr. Bob Coryton. THE RUBBER OF LIFE. BY DALTON INCOLD6BY. GAME THE LAST. GAME THE LAST. CHAPTER I. Faintly as tolls the evening chime, Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time, But when the wind blows off the shore, Oh sweetly we'll rest our weary oar. Row, brothers, row ! Duncan...

...AMERICA. CANADIAN BOAT SONG. WRITTEN ON THE RIVER ST. LAWRENCE.* Et remigem cantus hortatur. QUINTILIAN. FAINTLY as tolls the evening chime Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time. * I wrote these words to an air which our boatmen sung to us frequently. The wind was so unfavourable...

...communicated to the wave. A beautiful illustration is to be found in Mr. Moore's words and music — ' Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast ; The rapids are near, and the day-light past.' ing an ear to all the niceties of music and a correct taste. Under the term accent,...

...St. Anne, the patroness of the Canadian toyageurs, immortalized in Moore's Canadian Boat Song : — " 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 was here they made confession, and offered up their vows, previous to...

...confiding, To ease the foi,.l sighs of the lad that I love, Then I'll weave, &c. A CANADIAN BOAT SONG. Faintly as tolls the evening chime, Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time. Soon as the wooils on shore look dim, We'll sing at St. Ann's our parting hymn ! Row, brothers, row, the stream...

...as salmon in the river." " Just as many crabs as salmon," said Murtough ; " pull away, my hearty." " Row, brothers, row— the stream runs fast — The rapids are near, and the daylight's past !" CHAPTER XII. THE boats doubled round an angle in the river, and Andy was left in the hands of Squire...

...fanciful impressions to which my heart was alive during the whole of thU very interesting voyage." Faintly as tolls the evening chime, Our voices keep...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 waves to carl...