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A CANADIAN BOAT SONG.

Faintly as tolls the ev’ning chime,

Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time,

Soon as the woods on shore look dim,

We’ll sing at Saint Ann’s our parting hymn.

Row, brother’s, row, the stream run’s fast

The rapids are near, and the day-light’s past