An old road, an ancient way,
Of stories told of other days,
The downland rolls like an ocean deep.
Great waves of hills that have gone to sleep.
Unseen on high the skylarks sing,
Where buzzards soar on graceful wing,
Their mewing at the break of day
Melds with the horses far away.
The rolling hills and swaying corn,
The half moon sits at the edge of dawn.
And there in the distance I hear a sound
The rhythmic pounding in the ground,
For Lambourn too is the home of the horse,
The Thoroughbred is trained of course.
A right of passage the Ridgeway track
White as a scar on a giants back.
White horse reclines in mystic sleep,
He guards a secret buried deep,
His crest is the grass, his body green
His call is felt, but never seen.
Flint faced cottages hidden deep
Upon the windows horseshoes keep,
Silent they sit on leafy lanes,
Shaded in summer by swaying limes.
The white horse God is ever here
The racing God is ever near.
Caroline Baldock © 2018