BOBOLINK. 



INSTITUTE SONGS. 



I. 



Bobolink, swinging on the bough, Listen awhile to me, 

 Answer some questions for me now, Of some of the things I see. 



CHORUS : 



Bobolink, tell me, tell me true, How does the clover grow? 

 Where do the daisies find their frill, What makes the ocean waves go? 

 Where does the rainbow start and end? What makes the sky so blue? 

 Tell me the reason, my little friend Bobolink, answer me true. 



II. 



Bobolink, darting to and fro, Many a sight you see, 



Surely the reasons you must know, So won't you explain to me? 



CHORUS : 



Bobolink, tell me, tell me true, How does the shadow fall? 

 How does the robin build her nest? Where does she learn her soft call? 

 What makes the grass so fresh and green? Dotted with flowers, too? 

 Some of these things you have surely seen. Bobolink, answer me true. 



CANADIAN BOAT SONG. 



CHOICE SONGS. 



I. 



Faintly as tolls the evening chime, 

 Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time, 

 Our 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 fast. 



CHORUS : 



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

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



II. 



Why should we yet our sail unfurl, 

 There is not a breath the blue wave to curl, 

 There is not a breath the blue wave to curl ; 

 But when the wind blows off the shore, 

 O sweetly we'll rest the weary oar ; 

 Blow, breezes, blow, the stream runs fast. 



III. 



Utawa's tide, this trembling moon, 

 Shall see us float o'er the surges soon, 

 Shall see us float o'er the surges soon. 

 Saint of this green isle, hear our prayers, 

 O grant us cool heavens and fav'ring airs. 

 Blow, breezes, blow, the stream runs fast. 

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