IN OUR BOAT
by: Dinah Maria (Mulock)
Craik (1826-1887)
- TARS trembling
o'er us and sunset before us,
- Mountains in shadow and forests asleep;
- Down the dim river we float on forever,
- Speak not, ah, breathe not--there's peace on the deep.
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- Come not, pale sorrow, flee till to-morrow;
- Rest softly falling o'er eyelids that weep;
- While down the river we float on forever,
- Speak not, ah, breathe not--there's peace on the deep.
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- As the waves cover the depths we glide over,
- So let the past in forgetfulness sleep,
- While down the river we float on forever,
- Speak not, ah, breathe not--there's peace on the deep.
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- Heaven shine above us, bless all that love us;
All whom we love in thy tenderness keep!
While down the river we float on forever,
Speak not, ah, breathe not--there's peace on the deep.
"In Our Boat" is reprinted
from The Home Book of Verse. Ed. Burton Stevenson. New
York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1915. |
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