 | Thomas Moore - 1859 - 212 páginas
...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 day-light's past ! I MORE THAN ONCE HAVE HEARD, AT NIGHT. I MOEE than once have heard, at night, A song, like those... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1860 - 782 páginas
...tAWRESCE.1 Et remisem cantu» horUtur. QCTVIUU«. FAINTLY as tolls the evening chime Our voices keep tnne and our oars keep time Soon as the woods on shore look dim. We'll sing at St. Ann's our parting hvran.: How, brothers, row, the stream runs fast. The Rapids arc near and the daylight's pist Why should... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1860 - 802 páginas
...expressed in the first verse of his Canadian Boat Song : " 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 SL Ann's our evening hymn. Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, The rapids are near, and the daylight's... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1860 - 802 páginas
...tune and our oars keep time , Soon aa the woods on shore look dim, We'll Ring at St Ann's our evening hymn. Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, The rapids are near, and the daylight's past" 206 207 Junction of the Ottawa «nd St Lawrence. Ccdare Rapids. Garrison there in 1776. Conduct of... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1860 - 896 páginas
...boatmen : — " Faintly as tolls the evening chime, Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time. S;>on as the woods on shore look dim, We'll sing at St. Ann's our parting hymn. How, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, The Rapids are near, and the daylight's past. " Utnwa's tide... | |
 | 1926 - 64 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1881 - 1092 páginas
...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... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1975 - 586 páginas
...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 (Tommaso Aniello, 1620?-! 64 7) was a Neapolitan fisherman who led a brief revolt against... | |
 | D. M. R. Bentley - 1994 - 376 páginas
...- Moore echoes in his tone, diction, and time of day: Faintly as tolls the evening chime Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time. Soon as the woods...fast, The Rapids are near and the daylight's past. (Poetical Works 124-25) A lengthy footnote giving details of the songs of the voyageurs on the St.... | |
 | Doug Gray, Peggy Gray - 1995 - 176 páginas
...voyageurs sing as they paddled. The Canadian Boat Song Faintly as tolls the evening chime Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time Soon as the woods...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, But, when the wind... | |
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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. 
