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Canoe song
English source:
Isabella Valancy Crawford
O, light canoe, where dost thou glide?
Below thee gleams no silver’d tide,
But concave Heaven’s chiefest pride.
Above thee burns Eve’s rosy bar;
Below thee throbs her darling star;
Deep ’neath thy keel her round worlds
are!
Above, below, O sweet surprise,
To gladden happy lover’s eyes;
No earth, no wave—all jewell’d skies!
Below thee gleams no silver’d tide,
But concave Heaven’s chiefest pride.
Above thee burns Eve’s rosy bar;
Below thee throbs her darling star;
Deep ’neath thy keel her round worlds
are!
Above, below, O sweet surprise,
To gladden happy lover’s eyes;
No earth, no wave—all jewell’d skies!
Composer
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (15 August 1875 – 1 September 1912) was a British composer and conductor.
Poet
Isabella Valancy Crawford
Isabella Valancy Crawford (25 December 1846 - 12 February 1887) was an Irish-born Canadian writer and poet.