Very spacious are the fields and the views arc far;
One would think a man there would scarce a neighbour know;
As the eye goes searching they seem so few and far,
The tiny teams that plough there, moving grave and slow
As the little horses go gravely up and down,
Up and down and back again, all the long day through,
From the early morning until mid afternoon,
Of aught beyond the furrow one would deem they nothing knew:
But if across the vale there a team is led away
And a plough left idle half an hour too soon,
A cunning eye shall see it, and as who should say,
'See, one goes away there!' Comes a sudden neigh,
Whinny comes a-asking, plain as words can do,
'See, they are unloosing; should not we go too?
Homeward to the stable, through these many gates,
Homeward to the stable where the good food waits?
See, our neighbours over there, they have made their day,
Should not we be drawing in, to our corn and hay?'
The fields are very spacious and the views are very wide,
And steadily and deedily the little horses go;
But everything that stirs or haps on all that valley side,
Who carts, who ploughs, and why and when, the little horses know.
NOTE: The Nottinghamshire Wolds is a hilly area to the South of Nottingham which includes the villages of Rushcliffe, Keyworth, Clipston, Cotgrave, Owthorpe, Willoughby-on-the-Wolds, Stanton-on-the-Wolds and Normanton-on-the-Wolds.