 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 - Pagina 26editat de - 1900Vizualizare completă - Despre această carte
 | Henry Rowe Schoolcraft - 1855 - 660 pagini
...and we again embarked. Never did men more fully appreciate the melody of the Irish bard:— " Sweetly as tolls the evening chime, Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time." At half-past three the next morning, we found ourselves at the entrance to Lake St. Clair, thirty miles... | |
 | 1856 - 754 pagini
...lifetime. A CANADIAN BOAT SONO. Written on the River St. Lam-ena. Et remigem cantus hortator.' — QmtmuAH. 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... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1856 - 436 pagini
...CANADIAN BOAT SONG. WRITTEN ON THE RIVER ST. LAWRENCE.* • Et remigem cantus hortatur. QOIHTIUAN. FAINTLY as tolls the evening chime Our voices keep...oars keep time. Soon as the woods on shore look dim, We '11 sing at St. Ann's our parting hymn.f * I wrote these words to an air which our boatmen sung... | |
 | William Maginn, Robert Shelton Mackenzie - 1857 - 514 pagini
...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... | |
 | Hearty staves, John Erskine Clarke - 1858 - 152 pagini
...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... | |
 | B. J. Wallace, Albert Barnes - 1858 - 720 pagini
...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,... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1859 - 174 pagini
...would sooner, my exquisite mother ! Repose in the sun-set of thee, Than bask in the noon of another ! A CANADIAN BOAT SONG. FAINTLY as tolls the evening chime,...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 day-light's... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1859 - 606 pagini
...CANADIAN BOAT-SONG. "Written on the River St. Lawrence. i Et remigem cantus hortatur.— Quintil'mtt. 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.* l I wrote these words to an air which our boatmen sung to us very frequently.... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1859 - 212 pagini
...would sooner, my exquisite mother ! Bepose in the sun-set of thcp, Than bask in the noon of another ! A CANADIAN BOAT SONG. FAINTLY as tolls the evening chime, Our voices keep tune and our oars kept time. Soon as the woods on ehore look dim, We'll sing at St. Ann's our parting hymn. Eow, brothers,... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1860 - 802 pagini
...church upon the island. This fact suggested to Moore the thoughts expressed in the first verse of his Canadian Boat Song : " Faintly as tolls the evening...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... | |
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