plow! by angora

Photography • Animals • posted on Jan 27, 2014

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Iron-clad feather-feet pounding the dust An October's day, towards evening Sweat embossed veins standing proud to the plough Salt on a deep chest seasoning Last of the line at an honest day's toil Turning the deep sod under Flint at the fetlock, chasing the bone Flies at the nostrils plunder. The Suffolk, the Clydesdale, the Percheron vie With the Shire on his feathers floating / Hauling soft timber into the dusk / To bed on a warm straw coating. Heavy Horses, move the land under me / Behind the plough gliding --- slipping and sliding free / Now you're down to the few / And there's no work to do / The tractor's on it's way. Let me find you a filly for your proud stallion seed / To keep the old line going. / And we'll stand you abreast at the back of the wood / Behind the young trees growing / To hide you from eyes that mock at your girth, / And your eighteen hands at the shoulder / And one day when the oil barons have all dripped dry / And the nights are seen to draw colder / They'll beg for your strength, your gentle power / Your noble grace and your bearing / And you'll strain once again to the sound of the gulls / In the wake of the deep plough, sharing. Standing like tanks on the brow of the hill / Up into the cold wind facing / In stiff battle harness, chained to the world / Against the low sun racing Bring me a wheel of oaken wood A rein of polished leather A Heavy Horse and a tumbling sky Brewing heavy weather. Bring a song for the evening / Clean brass to flash the dawn / Across these acres glistening / Like dew on a carpet lawn / In these dark towns folk lie sleeping / As the heavy horses thunder by / To wake the dying city / With the living horseman's cry At once the old hands quicken --- / Bring pick and wisp and curry comb --- / Thrill to the sound of all The heavy horses coming home... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDYK5SBnVaQ october 15th, 2011 at the end of the field on the end of the day... Elza, Frieda & -gelding- Prins, about to turn Leo in the back row (would someone pls be willing to explain what 'vie' means?? -in 1st sentence, 2nd paragraph lyrics-)

Comments (24)

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Jean_C

1:38PM | Mon, 27 January 2014

Very beautiful coupling at work, with three heavy horses! Superb and interesting shot!

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jendellas

2:16PM | Mon, 27 January 2014

Beautiful, are they the usual girls. Vie usually means in competition.

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nedkelly

2:44PM | Mon, 27 January 2014

Wonderful capture. Vie, in this context, probably means struggle as they appear to be working together rather than competing.

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jayfar

3:14PM | Mon, 27 January 2014

This kind of shot will get me every time. Superb in every way.

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giulband

3:17PM | Mon, 27 January 2014

excellent shot !!

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flavia49

4:51PM | Mon, 27 January 2014

fabulous image

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Faemike55

6:19PM | Mon, 27 January 2014

Wonderful capture the current definition is: to compete with others in an attempt to get or win something Origin of VIE Middle English, short for envien, from Anglo-French envier to invite, call on, challenge, from Latin invitare to invite First Known Use: 15th century

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jocko500

8:00PM | Mon, 27 January 2014

very good shot of how they did it

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goodoleboy

8:21PM | Mon, 27 January 2014

Terrific composition, clarit, and sepia effects in this splendid pic of the plow horses, man and environment, Angie. I didn't know they did that kind of stuff in Holland.

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durleybeachbum

12:47AM | Tue, 28 January 2014

Superb photo! I love your horse photos

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CarolusB

2:31AM | Tue, 28 January 2014

thanks for the Tull - I had the same reaction

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farmerC

6:52AM | Tue, 28 January 2014

Drie "Belzen"voor de ploeg, je kunt ze op een hand tellen de liefhebbers. maar het is een prachtige opname zeker een stukje nostalgie.........

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Hendesse

8:06AM | Tue, 28 January 2014

A fantastic shot, the horses look very powerful as the whole image. Love the colors and the details are superb!!

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illkirch

8:36AM | Tue, 28 January 2014

The famous troika. All I can say is vie means life in french

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Leije

11:32AM | Tue, 28 January 2014

Beautiful horses, excellent shot !

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Juliette.Gribnau

12:21PM | Tue, 28 January 2014

weer een van jouw speciale juweeltjes

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mgtcs

10:07PM | Tue, 28 January 2014

Awesome image here, magnificent horses, first class shot!

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three_grrr

10:31PM | Tue, 28 January 2014

vie: competing, to measure oneself against another... among several such meanings. So to me, it appears that the Suffolk, the Clydesdale, the Percheron are all pulling a heavy load, and each is measuring their strength against the other's strength. A stunning picture, something not seen often in this day and age. Tractors do get the job done faster without tiring, but my gosh, there just isn't the beauty there is here.

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