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 breath the blue wave to curl ; But, when the wind blows off the shore, Oh ! sweetly we'll rest our weary oar. Blow,... The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore - Página 318por Thomas Moore - 1853Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| D. M. R. Bentley - 1994 - 376 páginas
...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 - 1995 - 176 páginas
...yet our sail unfurl? There is not a breath the blue wave to curl, But, when the wind blows off thy shore, Oh, sweetly we'll rest our weary oar. Blow,...fast, The Rapids are near and the daylight's past. INTRODUCTION Wife Peg has joined me for this voyage. She loves poking around strange waterways as much... | |
| Catherine Parr Strickland Traill - 1997 - 414 páginas
...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. See ThePoetical Works Of Thomas Moan. Ed. AD Godley. London et al: Humphrey Milford / Oxford University... | |
| Henry Coleman Folkard - 2000 - 586 páginas
...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... | |
| John Henricksson - 2000 - 316 páginas
...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... | |
| William Howarth - 2001 - 364 páginas
...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... | |
| Donald Harman Akenson - 2005 - 850 páginas
...Isles by the only 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... | |
| John Donaldson - 2006 - 292 páginas
...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 I paddled under the span of the great bridge that links Montreal with eastern Ontario, an endless stream... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 2006 - 196 páginas
...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 ». 77. Donnacona (t v. 1539), chef des Iroquois du SaintLaurent, représentant du village de Stadacona,... | |
| Walt Whitman - 2007 - 308 páginas
...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. [2] [Written in pencil on a scrap of paper pasted into Daybool^:] at Sarnia Canada June '80 Dr Archibald... | |
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