by Hamish Hendry ( flourished 1917 )
I saw them plunging through the foam
Language: English
I saw them plunging through the foam, I saw them prancing up the shore— A thousand horses, row on row, And then a thousand more! In joy they leaped upon the land, In joy they fled before the wind, Prancing and plunging on they raced, The huntsman raced behind. When this old huntsman goes to sleep, The horses live beneath the waves; They live at peace, and rest in peace, Deep in their sea green caves. But when they hear the huntsman’s shout Urging his hounds across the sea, Out from their caves in frenzied fear The great white horses flee! To-day they plunged right through the foam, To-day they pranced right up the shore, A thousand horses, row on row, And then a thousand more.
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Confirmed with A Child's Own Book of Verse, book 3, compiled by Ada M. Skinner and Frances Gillespy Wickes, Chapel Hill: Yesterday's Classics, 2006, page 1.
Authorship:
- by Hamish Hendry ( flourished 1917 ), "White Horses", first published 1917? [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Elinor Remick Warren (1900 - 1991), "White horses of the sea", published 1932 [ voice and piano ], New York: G. Schirmer [sung text checked 1 time]
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