 | Catherine Parr Strickland Traill - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 414 pages
...Song" by Thomas Moore, first published in 1805, reads: 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. See ThePoetical Works Of Thomas Moan. Ed. AD Godley. London et al: Humphrey Milford / Oxford University... | |
 | John Henricksson - Literary Collections - 2000 - 316 pages
...forth in song: "Back home again in Indiana." Singing while paddling was the manner of the voyageurs: Row brothers, row, the stream runs fast. The rapids are near and the daylight's past. There was the voyageur song about Thoda, who spurned three barons for a youth she loved: Oh, my heart... | |
 | Henry Coleman Folkard - Transportation - 2000 - 586 pages
...the Far West.' ' Soon as the woods on shore look dim. We'll sing ut St. Ann's oor parting hymn. Bow. brothers, row, the stream runs fast. The rapids are near and the daylight's past.' : Bireb-bark eanoes are also used by the Sioux lwho purehase them of the f'hippewaya) In gathering... | |
 | William Howarth - Nature - 2001 - 364 pages
...been 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 described precisely our own adventure, and was inspired by the experience of a similar kind of... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - Québec (Province) - 2006 - 196 pages
...Song / ( A passage down the River of St. Lawrence) // 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 ». 77. Donnacona (t v. 1539), chef des Iroquois du SaintLaurent, représentant du village de Stadacona,... | |
 | John Donaldson - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 292 pages
...in verse with his classic "Canadian Boat Song." It begins: Faintly as tolls the evening 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 daylight's... | |
 | Donald Harman Akenson - Civilization, Modern - 2005 - 850 pages
...sensible route: a tour of the northern part of the United States and of the Canadas. Blow, breezes, blow, the stream runs fast. The rapids are near and the daylight's past. There are several more verses. Generations of Canadian school children come to hate his name, for they... | |
 | Walt Whitman - Literary Collections - 2007 - 308 pages
...sorrow that heaven cannot heal.4 CANADIAN BOAT SONG. Faintly as tolls the evening chime, Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time; Soon as the woods on the shore look dim, We'll sing at St. Ann's our parting hymn; Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast,... | |
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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. 
