 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.  The Canadian Magazine - Page 26edited by - 1900Full view - About this book
 | George Ernest Bulger - 1864 - 350 pages
...tiger-hunt makes me shudder with horror and apprehension. 101 CHAPTER XIV. HARRY GREENWOOD'S JOURNAL. " Faintly as tolls the evening chime Our voices keep...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... | |
 | 1865 - 436 pages
...recline, A CANADIAN BOAT SONG. WRITTEN ON THE RIVER ST. LAWRENCE.* Et remigem cantus hortatur. QDINTILIAN. FAINTLY as tolls the evening chime Our voices keep...oars keep time. Soon as the woods on shore look dim, 'We 'll sing at St. Ann's our parting hymn.f * I wrote these words to an air which our boatmen sung... | |
 | Walter Scott Dalgleish - 1865 - 80 pages
...human ; to forgive, divine. — Pope. 17. You forget yourself, to hedge me in. — Shakespeare. 18. Faintly as tolls the evening chime, Our voices keep tune, and our oars keep time. — Moore. 19. Thus when, with meats and drinks, they had sufficed, Not burdened, nature, sudden mind... | |
 | Charles A. Peverelly - 1866 - 586 pages
...whistle, the boat is in motion, the crew joining with a will in Tom Moore's pathetic old refrain of the 'Canadian Boat Song' : ' Faintly as tolls the evening...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... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1866 - 574 pages
...bards shall walk these dells, And sing your praise, sweet evening bells. A CANADIAN BOAT-SONG. T^AINTLY as tolls the evening chime, Our voices keep tune,...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... | |
 | Coventry Patmore - 1866 - 374 pages
...snow ; Heav'n save us all from a death like this, On the reef of Norman's Woe ! HW Longfellow XLVI A CANADIAN BOAT SONG Faintly as tolls the evening chime,...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... | |
 | Walter Scott Dalgleish - 1866 - 82 pages
...err is human; to forgive, divine.—Pope. 17. You forget yourself, to hedge me in.—Shakespeare. 18. Faintly as tolls the evening chime, Our voices keep tune, and our oars keep time.—Moore. 19. Thus when, with meats and drinks, they had sufficed, Not burdened, nature, sudden... | |
 | Francis William Newman - 1868 - 226 pages
...Cretics (— u— ). On SECTION VI. remarks are made in the Note at the end. CANADIAN BOAT SONG. 1. FAINTLY as tolls the evening chime, Our voices keep...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... | |
 | Lawrence Johnstone Burpee - 1926 - 722 pages
...his way home made a tour through eastern Canada in the course of which he wrote the poem beginning : "Faintly as tolls the evening chime, Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time." The authorship of the other and more famous boat song has been a matter of controversy for many years,... | |
 | William Lawson Grant - 1926 - 728 pages
...his way home made a tour through eastern Canada in the course of which he wrote the poem beginning: "Faintly as tolls the evening chime, Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time." The authorship of the other and more famous boat song has been a matter of controversy for many years,... | |
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