 | Thomas Moore - 1863 - 580 pages
...parting hymn. Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, The rapids are near, and the day-light 's past ! Why should we yet our sail unfurl ? There is not a breath the blue wave to curl ! But when the wind blowa off the shore, Oh ! sweetly we '11 rest our weary oar. Blow, breezes, blow, the stream runs fast,... | |
 | Coventry Patmore - Children's poetry - 1863 - 390 pages
...is not a breath the blue wave to curl ; But when the wind blows off the shore, Oh ! sweetly we 'll rest our weary oar. Blow, breezes, blow, the stream runs fast, The Rapids are near and the daylight 's past. Utawa's tide ! this trembling moon Shall see us float over thy surges soon. Saint... | |
 | John Charles Curtis - 1863 - 178 pages
...surges soon. Saint of this green isle ! hear our prayers, Oh ! grant us cool heavens and favouring airs. Blow, breezes, blow ! the stream runs fast, The rapids are near, and the daylight's past ! c RING OUT THE OLD, RING IN THE NEW. — Tennyson. RING out wild bells to the wild sky, The flying... | |
 | Christian literature for children - 982 pages
...be used among our Sabbathschools. The chorus or refrain of the original is — " How, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, The rapids are near, and the daylight's past." And in the song they speak of singing at ' ' St. Ann's their parting hymn." The music was long popularly... | |
 | 1863 - 682 pages
...together some favorite airs, and not appear wearied. That charming melody of " Row, brothers, row I the stream runs fast, The rapids are near and the daylight's past," was heard by Moore when passing a raft of voyageurs who were singing it : and I have heard something... | |
 | Atlantic States - 1864 - 352 pages
...parting hymn. Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, The Rapids are near and the daylight's past. Why should we yet our sail unfurl ? There is not a...oar. Blow, breezes, blow, the stream runs fast, The Eapids are near and the daylight's past. * The voyageurn, in passing the Rapids of St. Anne, were formerly... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - Maine - 1864 - 344 pages
...daylight long past ; the woods on shore looked dim, and many an Utawas' tide here emptied into the lake. " Why should we yet our sail unfurl ? There is not a...to curl ! But, when the wind blows off the shore, 0 sweetly we '11 rest our weary oar." " Utawas' tide ! this trembling moon, Shall see us float o'er... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - Biography & Autobiography - 1975 - 586 pages
..."Faintly as tolls the evening chime Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time. . . . Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, The rapids are near and the daylight's past." 5. Masaniello (Tommaso Aniello, 1620?-! 64 7) was a Neapolitan fisherman who led a brief revolt against... | |
 | D. M. R. Bentley - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 376 pages
...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. (Poetical Works 124-25) A lengthy footnote giving details of the songs of the voyageurs on the St.... | |
 | Doug Gray, Peggy Gray - Ottawa River (Quebec and Ont.) Navigation - 1995 - 176 pages
...parting Hymn. Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, The Rapids are near and the daylight's past. Why should we yet our sail unfurl? There is not a...the blue wave to curl, But, when the wind blows off thy shore, Oh, sweetly we'll rest our weary oar. Blow, breezes, blow, the stream runs fast, The Rapids... | |
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Row, brothers, row ! the stream runs fast, The rapids are near, and the daylight's past! 
