...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....

...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...

...all the way, to guide their chime, With falling oars they kept the time." A. MARVELL, The Emigrant. " Faintly as tolls the evening chime, Our voices keep tune, and our oars keep time." MOORE, Canadian Boat Song. Even in the effect of music, where he would have us believe he is in his...

...jackets of blue '. Through climes still a ranger, THE CANADIAN BOAT SONG. T. MOORE.—Music at Addison's. FAINTLY as tolls the evening chime, Our voices keep...and our oars keep time; Soon as the woods on shore grow dim, We'll sing to St. Ann our parting hymn. How, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, The rapids...

...makes a jar through a whole regiment. In Moore's Canadian Boat Song, the distinction is wellmarked : Faintly as tolls the evening chime, Our voices keep tune, and our oars keep time. Rhythm, then, is the musical flow of language. The world is full of rhythms, in sound, speech, motion,...

...this green isle ! hear our prayers, Oh, grant us eool heavens and favouring airs, Blow, breezes, blow, the stream runs fast. The Rapids are near and the daylight's past. CUPID ANT) PSYCHE. 1IEY told her that he to whose vows she had listen'd "*• ' Through night's fleeting...

...had never been sigh'd on by any but mine !" A CANADIAN BOAT-SONG. WBITTIN ON THE BIVEK ST LAWBENCE. FAINTLY as tolls the evening chime, Our voices keep...day-light's past ! Why should we yet our sail unfurl ? But, when the wind blows off the shore, Oh I sweetly we'll rest our weary oar. Blow, breezes, blow,...

...work, determined work, and quick work. The nation seems to be swinging forward with this little song: Row, brothers, row, The stream runs fast, The rapids are near, And the day is far gone. This simple little song gives you an accurate picture of the national psychology at...

...getting dusk when we approached the most ticklish part of the navigation : we might truthfully have sung Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, The rapids are near and the daylight past ; and under any other circumstances we would have camped for the night ; but we were...

...Bridge" (1803). 4. Cf. Thomas Moore, "A Canadian Boat Song," from Poems Relating to America (1806): "Faintly as tolls the evening chime Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time. . . . Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, The rapids are near and the daylight's past." 5. Masaniello...