 | Thomas Moore - 1858 - 364 pages
...this green isle ! hear our prayers, Oh, grant us eool heavens and favouring airs, Blow, breezes, blow, the stream runs fast. The Rapids are near and the daylight's past. CUPID ANT) PSYCHE. 1IEY told her that he to whose vows she had listen'd "*• ' Through night's fleeting... | |
 | Hearty staves, John Erskine Clarke - 1858 - 152 pages
...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. TJtawa's tide ! this trembling moon Shall see us float o'er thy surges soon. Saint of the green isle... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1866 - 580 pages
...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...day-light's past ! Why should we yet our sail unfurl ? But, when the wind blows off the shore, Oh I sweetly we'll rest our weary oar. Blow, breezes, blow,... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1859 - 606 pages
...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! Utawas tide ! this trembling moon Shall see us float over thy surges soon. Saint of this green isle... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1859 - 212 pages
...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 day-light's past ! I MORE THAN ONCE HAVE HEARD, AT NIGHT. I MOEE than once have heard, at night, A song, like those... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1859 - 174 pages
...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 day-light's past ! Utawas' tide ! this trembling moon Shall see us float over thy surges soon. Saint of this green isle... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1860 - 802 pages
...tune and our oars keep time , 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 past" Moore says, in reference to this song, " I wrote these words to an air which onr boatmen sung to us... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1860 - 802 pages
...tune and our oars keep time , Soon aa the woods on shore look dim, We'll Ring at St Ann's our evening hymn. Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, The rapids are near, and the daylight's past" 206 207 Junction of the Ottawa «nd St Lawrence. Ccdare Rapids. Garrison there in 1776. Conduct of... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1860 - 896 pages
...oars keep time. S;>on 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 daylight's past. " Utnwa's tide ! this trembling moon Shall see us float over thy surges soon. Saint of this green isle... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1861 - 354 pages
...truth burst upon us, our feelings may perhaps be conceived, but cannot be expressed." EAPIDS. " Eow, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, The rapids are near, and the daylight's past." THUS sang, or rather wrote, the sweet bard of Erin, whose voice is now hushed in death. At the time... | |
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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. Anne's our parting hymn. Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, The Rapids are near, and the daylight's past. 
