combat_claire
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I am after a poem or reading for our hunt carol service that the youngsters could perform. Has anyone got any recommendations for a suitably Christmassy poem?
Hunt Carol Service
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JenHunt
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we have kids read out "the christmas fox", and they all perform "12 days of christmas", having drawn a picture for each day (a partridge and a pear tree, 12 lords a leaping etc...). As they go through the chorus the relevant picture gets held up (does that make sense?)
combat_claire
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Have you by any chance got the words for the Christmas Fox? Google didn't seem to throw up the text of the poem.
happyhunter123
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A hunt carol service? What a great idea! Love it 
JenHunt
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will dig it out for you!
also, found this from a few years ago....http://www.booksarecool.com/2011/baby-jesus-and-the-fox-a-poem-for-christmas/
combat_claire
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Thanks Jen, much appreciated. I'll see what my co-organiser thinks.
Happyhunter - hunt carol services are great. We had one for the first time last year in a parish church close to the kennels - a traditional 7 lessons and carols by candle light officiated by the local priest. We got a mix of foot followers and mounted followers to read the lessons. The collection raised lots of money for the Hunt Staff Benevolent Society and then had mulled wine and mince pies. It really helped everyone get in the festive spirit.
Happyhunter - hunt carol services are great. We had one for the first time last year in a parish church close to the kennels - a traditional 7 lessons and carols by candle light officiated by the local priest. We got a mix of foot followers and mounted followers to read the lessons. The collection raised lots of money for the Hunt Staff Benevolent Society and then had mulled wine and mince pies. It really helped everyone get in the festive spirit.
JenHunt
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ours is along a similar vein, but with a few hunting themed readings mixed in.
CC - I haven't got it I'll have an ask about for you and see what I come up with!
also, google ogilvie poems for more ideas!
CC - I haven't got it
I'll have an ask about for you and see what I come up with!also, google ogilvie poems for more ideas!
nonstop
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Not Christmas-y but it is a winter-y poem:
“A Riding Song”
Let us ride together,
Blowing mane and hair,
Careless of the weather,
Miles ahead of care.
Ring of hoof and snaffle,
Swing of waist and hip,
Trotting down the twisted road
With the world let slip.
Let us laugh together,
Merry as of old
To the creak of leather
And the morning cold.
Break into a canter;
Shout to bank and tree;
Rocking down the waking trail,
Steady hand and knee.
Take the life of cities!
Here’s the life for me,
‘Twere a thousand pities
Not to gallop free.
So we’ll ride together,
Comrade, you and I,
Careless of the weather,
Letting cares go by.
-- Anonymous
“A Riding Song”
Let us ride together,
Blowing mane and hair,
Careless of the weather,
Miles ahead of care.
Ring of hoof and snaffle,
Swing of waist and hip,
Trotting down the twisted road
With the world let slip.
Let us laugh together,
Merry as of old
To the creak of leather
And the morning cold.
Break into a canter;
Shout to bank and tree;
Rocking down the waking trail,
Steady hand and knee.
Take the life of cities!
Here’s the life for me,
‘Twere a thousand pities
Not to gallop free.
So we’ll ride together,
Comrade, you and I,
Careless of the weather,
Letting cares go by.
-- Anonymous
nonstop
Member
Update: Above poem is not anonymous. Google Books shows that it's by someone named Theodore Roberts. Credit where credit is due!
Munsey's Magazine, April 1904 (Vol. 31)
http://books.google.com/books?id=sc...of the weather, Miles ahead of care.&f=false
Munsey's Magazine, April 1904 (Vol. 31)
http://books.google.com/books?id=sc...of the weather, Miles ahead of care.&f=false
combat_claire
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We had our second hunt carol service last night. Another great success. I found the text of The Christmas Fox in a poetry book on Ebay and the Pony Club kids read it really well. We also raised lots of money for the hunt and the HSBS (£334)