Sunday, August 04, 2013

Horse of the year show #10

Posted by Buckles at 8/04/2013 05:01:00 AM

1 comments:

Eric said...

An annual highlight of The Horse of the Year Show is the reading of “Ode to the Horse,” written by Ronald Duncan in 1954:

“Where in this wide world can man find nobility without pride, friendship without envy or beauty without vanity? Here, where grace is laced with muscle, and strength by gentleness confined.
He serves without servility; he has fought without enmity.
There is nothing so powerful, nothing less violent, there is nothing so quick, nothing more patient.
England’s past has been borne on his back.
All our history is his industry; we are his heirs, he our inheritance.
The Horse!”

04 August, 2013 10:28

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