A Hunting Morning
A Hunting Morning is a poem written by Arthur Conan Doyle first published in Songs of Action in 1898.
Editions
- in Songs of Action (1898-1916, Smith, Elder & Co. [UK])
- in Songs of Action (august 1898, Charles Scribner's Sons [US])
- in Songs of Action (september 1898, Doubleday, Page & Co. [US])
- in Current Literature (october 1901 [US])
- in The Year Book Press (november 1908 [UK])
- in Songs of Action (1918-1920, John Murray [UK])
- in The Poems of Arthur Conan Doyle (1922-1928, John Murray [UK])
A Hunting Morning
Put the saddle on the mare,
For the wet winds blow;
There's winter in the air,
And autumn all below.
For the red leaves are flying
And the red bracken dying,
And the red fox lying
Where the oziers grow.
Put the bridle on the mare,
For my blood runs chill;
And my heart, it is there,
On the heather-tufted hill,
With the gray skies o'er us,
And the long-drawn chorus
Of a running pack before us
From the find to the kill.
Then lead round the mare,
For it's time that we began,
And away with thought and care,
Save to live and be a man,
While the keen air is blowing,
And the huntsman holloing,
And the black mare going
As the black mare can.
Adaptations
Music
- 1908 : Adaptation by Alfred J. Silver (The Year Book Press, november 1908)
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A Hunting Morning
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- 2000 : Adaptation by Peter Savidge & Jennifer Partridge (CD Music: Play the Game: Victorian and Edwardian Sporting Songs)
Performed by Peter Savidge (2000)
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