"Row, row, row your boat, Gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, Life is but a dream."

"Like the watermen that row one way and look another."

"On the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar."

"All in the golden afternoon Full leisurely we glide; For both our oars, with little skill, By little arms are plied, …"

"And all the way, to guide their chime, With falling oars they kept the time."

"Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale."

"The oars were silver: Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke."

"Oh, swiftly glides the bonnie boat, Just parted from the shore, And to the fisher's chorus-note, Soft moves the dippi…"

"But oars alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toi…"

"We lie and listen to the hissing waves, Wherein our boat seems sharpening its keel, Which on the sea's face all untha…"