Grassbrook Equine

Tho' before you cold I lay,

Let it not be a futile end,

For far above the work self-done

Is the knowledge of Victory won!

Yet while the heart still bleeds in sorrow

Forgive those who gasp in fear tomorrow

Reach out the hands to them 'fore said

As to me in life you did.

Treat them as your children own

And know that He shall yet condone

The love you pour and freely give.

Though before you, cold I lay

Let not o...

One day as I was travelling along

The highway stretched away so long,

SoI stopped the car to take a walk

And as I did I chanced upon

The bleached white bones of some old horse

His day of glory long since gone...

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Sitting apart I happened to spy

A rusted shoe that may have been owned

I'm the local farrier

Called from paddock to barrier

I shoe the horse in competition

 I tap their toes in quiet contrition

 I shoe the pony for trail rides

I shoe the greys, the blacks, the bays