 | John Morison Duncan - Atlantic States - 1823 - 436 pages
...across the confined pass, if I may so call it, and the burden of Moore's song was forcibly suggested. " Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, The rapids are near and the day light's past !" Though the afternoon had been very hot, and the sun's rays, reflected from the... | |
 | William Harrison Ainsworth - 1823 - 266 pages
...wither'd waste of life, those tears would flow to me ! THE FALLS OF OHIOPYLE. Blow, breezes, blow ! the stream runs fast, The rapids are near, and the daylight's past I THE FALLS OF OHIOPYLE. Go, where the water gtideth gently ever, Glideth by meadows that the greenest... | |
 | Edward Allen Talbot - Canada - 1824 - 848 pages
...harmonize this air, by writing the following stanzas : 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 rum fast, The rapids are near, and the day-light's... | |
 | Edward Allen Talbot - Canada - 1824 - 452 pages
...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 pait ! Why should we our sail unfurl ? There is not a breath the blue wave to curl ; But when the wind... | |
 | Edward Allen Talbot - Canada - 1824 - 450 pages
...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 pa>t ! Why should we our sail unfurl ? There is not a breath the blue wave to curl ; But... | |
 | Cabinet - Literature - 1824 - 440 pages
...affectionately, (Signed) WINEFRED NITHSDALE. THE FALLS OF OHIOPYLE. From " December Talet." Blow breezes, blow ! the stream runs fast, The rapids are near, and the daylight's past ! ON the west of the AUeghany mountains rise the branches of the Youghiogeny river. The surrounding... | |
 | Thomas Moore - Folk songs, Irish - 1825 - 374 pages
...LAWRE Kt remigem cantus bortatur. — Qirinti/ia/i. 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... | |
 | Thomas Moore - Irish literature - 1825 - 340 pages
...entered, at sunset, upon one of those beautiful iako?, into which the St. Lawrence so grandly anr! Soon 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 day light's pas: Why should... | |
 | Thomas Moore - Irish literature - 1825 - 310 pages
...verse was, -oon as the woods on shore look dim, • sVe'll sing at St. Ann's our parting hymn!* ,tovr, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, The rapids are near and the daylight's past. A 1'ornbre d'un bois je m'en nais jouer, A 1'ombre d'un bois je m'en vais danser. I ventured to harmonize... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1827 - 426 pages
...diOiiullir*. lib 117 Soon ae the woods oo shore look dim, We 11 sing at St Ann's our parting by mo.1 Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, The Rapids are near and the daylight '» past ! Why should we yet our »ail unfurl ? There is not a breath the blue wave to curl... | |
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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. 
