The Cherhill White Horse (Dr. Alsop's Dream)

from Dramatic, Grim and Humorous by Sister Ursuline

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lyrics

Blessed be this vision
With an eye that shone
So brightly from the hill
And then was gone.

In the Spring of 1780
The Steward of the Borough was Dr. Alsop.
He conceived of the White Horse of Cherhill Downs,
So pleasing a sight to travellers to the town.

Ancient hills concealed a blinding white,
Rushes arced and caught the morning light.
Glinting like his vision in the pitch of night,
As the doctor carved his dream
Into the green hillside.

The horse emerging yet,
The flags in lines were set.
They trace the frame of his legacy.
White horse on the high hill,
White horse on the high hill.
I am the scholar who keeps this history.

Yes, I was born here.
My records span hundreds of years.
What became of Alsop is a mystery –
Unknown in living memory.

The eye that shone
When I was gone –
It has prevailed without me.
No one will know
How I loathed to go –
Must death end absolutely?
Upon the hill,
We labour in vain
'Til time claims us
And renders us all the same.

Completing my vision
With the eye that shone
So brightly from the hill
When I was gone.

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from Dramatic, Grim and Humorous, released September 15, 2015
Cello, vocals: Sister Ursuline

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Sister Ursuline Sydney, Australia

Sister Ursuline is a Sydney-based singer-songwriter and cellist. Sonic historian and “found-object artist of musical influences,” she draws on historical sources and folk stories to create otherworldly narrative songs: asylum-bound nuns, shape-shifting witches and iron-willed aristocrats inhabit “echoing, off-kilter tale[s]… of madness, illness, obsession and suffering…” ... more

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