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Vaughan Williams: Hugh the Drover, or Love in the Stocks, Act 1: "Horse-Hoofs, Horse-Hoofs, Thunder Down the Valleys" (Hugh, Mary,
Sir Charles Groves
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Horses, horses, thunder down the valleys
Foaming manes and tossing tails
Strength and speed and fire
Thudding, thudding, scampering
Chicks in sudden sallies
Hear them up the mountain
Higher still and higher
Till we meet the wind
Race the wind and on the hollows
Drive the wind before us
Leaving streaming out behind us
Up, up again
The panting wind that follows
Not the wind of heaven itself
Dared yet to catch and bind us
Horses, horses, coming, passing by
To behold you in the noonday
When the blood runs high
Campfires, campfires, now the west is glowing
Send the ruddy smoke up to feed the brightening moon
Not a roof to shield your head from free winds blowing
Not a wall to deaden the water's lulling tune
Looking round the campfires
Busy sounds and cheering
Meat and drink for belly
And the clink of foresight
Oh, to stretch your length
When your back and bones are weary
Dewy sleep on closing eyes
From hell's a fair white
Campfires, campfires, red in the gloom
To behold you in the twilight
From your sheltered room
Calling, calling in the twilight
From my sheltered room
Heartbeats, heartbeats
All the world is sleeping
I alone awake
I alone to call
Ah, to wake alone
While the merry stars are peeping
Ah, to stretch out empty arms
And fold the wandering air
While the scented night
Breathes of beauty and of loving
Heartbeats answer with a broken cry
Calling for a bride
With courage to go roving
To dare the world for love
Beneath the open sky
Heartbeats, heartbeats
Throbbing for the bride
To behold you in the midnight
To a strong man's side
Mary, Mary, good heavens
Has the child gone mad?
Mary, Mary, come back, come back
Come back, I say
Brother, brother, he's witch-glot
Come quickly
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Hello, I found you, found you
At first sight I knew myself
Too late, too late
Never, you are mine
As here in heaven's light
Here beneath the open sky
I hold you
I look at over
To swear that I am yours forever
Who are you and I?
Oh, who am I?
Mary, you know me well
I cannot know you
The fated lover
I know no lover
One born to love you, sweet
And knowing it
Where will you lead me?
Into my arms
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