 | Asa Fitz - 1854 - 204 Seiten
...Song. 1 Faintly as tolls the evening chime, Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time; Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time; Soon as the woods on shore look dim, We'll cheerfully sing our parting hymn. Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, The rapids arc near, and... | |
 | Amos Lawrence - 1855 - 346 Seiten
...good Christian." "Oct. 11.— CANADIAN BOAT-SONG. ' Faintly, as tolls the evening chime, Our voices keep tune, and our oars keep time ; Soon as the woods...look dim, We'll sing at St. Ann's our parting hymn. Eow, brothers, row : the stream runs fast, The rapids are near, and daylight's past.' I first heard... | |
 | John Disturnell - 1855 - 272 Seiten
...admired Canadian Boat Song,' a stanza of which we copy : 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. Anne's our parting hymn. Row brothers row, the stream runs fast, The Rapids are near, and the day-light's... | |
 | lord William Pitt Lennox - 1855 - 306 Seiten
...immortalized by Moore in those exquisite lines — ' 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. Anne's our parting hymn.' It was here the boatmen made confession, and offered up their vows, previous... | |
 | Asa Fitz - 1855 - 200 Seiten
...voices keep tune and our oars keep time; Soon as the woods on shore look dim, We'll cheerfully sing our parting hymn. Row, brothers, row, the stream runs...fast, The rapids are near, and the daylight's past, The rapids are near and the daylight's past. 2 Why should we yet our sail unfurl ? There is not a breath... | |
 | Elias Nason - 1855 - 134 Seiten
...Boat Song. [8s & 9s.] TUNE— "Canadian Boat Song." 1 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 cheerfully sing our parting hymn ; Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, The rapids are near, and... | |
 | N. Brittan, L. H. Sherwood - 1855 - 400 Seiten
...Melodeon, 43. 2J vol. Social Choir, 112. Soon as the woods on the shore look dim, We '11 cheerfully sing our parting hymn ! Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, The rapids are near, and the daylight 's past — The rapids are near, and the daylight 's past. 2. Why should we yet our sails... | |
 | Amos Lawrence - 1855 - 394 Seiten
...good Christian." "Oct. 11.— CANADIAN BOAT-SONG. 1 Faintly as tolls the 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, row : the stream runs fast, The rapids are... | |
 | Amos Lawrence - 1855 - 396 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, row : the stream runs fast, i The rapids are near, and daylight 'a past.' I first heard this song sung and played on the piano... | |
 | William S. Hunter - 1855 - 118 Seiten
...Irish poet, Tom Moore, wrote in reference to its rapids his much admired " Canadian Boat Song": — " Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, The rapids are near, and the day light is past," &c. The steamer Lady Simpson is locked past the rapids, at St . Anne's, then continues... | |
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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. 
