| Coventry Patmore - 1862 - 372 Seiten
...But when the wind blows off the shore, Oh ! sweetly we'll rest our weary oar. Blow, breezes, blow, the stream runs fast, The Rapids are near and the daylight's past. Utawas' tide ! this trembling moon Shall see us float over thy surges soon. Saint of this green isle... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1863 - 580 Seiten
...evening chime, Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time. Soon as the woods on shore look dim, We '11 sing at St Ann's our parting hymn. Row, brothers,...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... | |
| Coventry Patmore - 1863 - 386 Seiten
...keep tune and our oars keep time. Soon as the woods on the 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 past. Why should we yet our sail unfurl ? There is not a breath the blue wave to curl ;... | |
| Playtime - 1863 - 436 Seiten
...soon. Saint of this green isle ! hear our prayers, Oh, grant us cool heavens, and favouring airs ! Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, The Rapids are near, and the daylight's past. MOORE. THE LOSS OF THE ROYAL GEORGE. 185 LXVI THE LOSS OF THE ROYAL GEORGE. Toll for the brave ! The... | |
| 982 Seiten
...is more fit to be used among our Sabbathschools. The chorus or refrain of the original is — " How, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, The rapids are near, and the daylight's past." And in the song they speak of singing at ' ' St. Ann's their parting hymn." The music was long popularly... | |
| 1863 - 682 Seiten
...together some favorite airs, and not appear wearied. That charming melody of " Row, brothers, row I the stream runs fast, The rapids are near and the daylight's past," was heard by Moore when passing a raft of voyageurs who were singing it : and I have heard something... | |
| John Charles Curtis - 1863 - 178 Seiten
...But, when the wind blows off the shore, Oh ! sweetly we'll rest our weary oar. Blow, breezes, blow ! the stream runs fast, The rapids are near, and the daylight's past ! Utawas tide ! this trembling moon Shall see us float over thy surges soon. Saint of this green isle... | |
| George Ernest Bulger - 1864 - 350 Seiten
..." 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...fast, The rapids are near and the daylight's past." MOORE — Canadian Boat Song. Prescott, 21st September. I HAVE just had an interview with Fisher, and... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 1864 - 344 Seiten
...startled by our singing. It was with new emphasis that we sang there the Canadian boat-song, — " Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, The Rapids are near and the daylight 's past ! " — •which describes precisely our own adventure, and was inspired by the experience... | |
| Thomas Rawlings - 1865 - 278 Seiten
...this green isle, hear our prayers! Oh ! grant us cool heavens and fav'ring airs. Blow, breezes, blow, the stream runs fast, The Rapids are near, and the daylight's past." EMIGRATION. The Canadian Almanac for 1864 contains such a concise and excellent chapter on the reasons... | |
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