Love's Grace
Sir Edward Elgar composed our next featured piece, simply entitled 'Salut D'amour'. In English, the piece is entitled 'Love's Grace'. Sir Elgar composed this piece for his wife to be, Caroline Alice Roberts, and presented to her as an engagement ring of sorts. The couple were married a year later, even with Alice becoming disinherited from the family, and the couple lived happily ever after. Elgar looks like the prototypical strong man, but he in reality was a very sensible gentleman as you can hear in this piece.
Bronies and pegasisters, I present to you: Sir Edward Elgar's 'Salut D'amour' as conveyed by none other than Rainbow Dash and Soarin.
Love is in the air across Ponyville. After all, it was Hearts and Hooves Day, the perfect day for couples to express their dedication and desire for each other. Houses were lined with streamers and small banners filled with hearts. Fillies and colts in the Ponyville schoolhouse were busy exchanging Hearts and Hooves Day cards to each other, eager to see how many they were going to receive for this year. Across from the schoolhouse, couples were having fun skating along the icy lake.
But such “girly” things left Rainbow Dash disgusted.
“Aww puh-lease… Hearts and Hooves Day is just another day for ponies to get all mushy and lovey-dovey,” complained a mocking Rainbow Dash.
“The way I see it, today’s just another day to fly across the sky and kick some wintery clouds! I don’t see why my friends take this day so seriously!” continued Rainbow Dash, looking downwards to the icy lake where her friends skated with their loved ones.
“Why couldn’t they go skating any other day? I mean, why set aside a whole day just for yucky, kissy stuff?” Rainbow Dash groaned, crossing her hooves.
But just as she continued her griping, a familiar face tackled her into one of the clouds! Rainbow Dash grunted and pushed the pony away from her, only to descend into laughter.
“Soarin! What are you doing here?!” inquired a pleasantly surprised Rainbow Dash.
“Oh! I just wanted to see you on this lovely day!” Soarin replied with a sheepish smile.
“I know that smile of yours Soarin… C’mon, spill it out! What are you really here for?!” interrogated the rainbow-coloured Pegasus. Soarin’ aimlessly flied around before Rainbow Dash stopped him in his tracks with her hooves.
“Soarin… Don’t be scared. It’s just me! C’mon, just tell me!” encouraged Rainbow Dash.
“Well… Umm… I brought this for you. I have to go to a Wonderbolts practice in Canterlot now, but I just wanted to see you before I went on.” Soarin’ chuckled with a growing blush on his cheek.
“Ummm… have a happy Hearts and Hooves Day!” Soarin’ immediately flew off, leaving Rainbow Dash to rip the top of the red envelope and open the card that Soarin’ sent to her.
Rainbow Dash read through the card’s contents over and over again. She wasn’t normally this excited about receiving any sort of gift with sentimental value. But this gift was different. It was a rainbow-coloured card that merely said inside,
“Rainbow Dash, you’re an admirable Pegasus. Don’t ever forget that for me. I hope to see you flying with me and the Wonderbolts someday.”
The message was short and sweet. Just the way she liked it. Rainbow Dash held the card tightly on her chest. With a warm smile on her face, Rainbow Dash immediately flew back down to join her friends on their skating excursion. Soarin sure knew how to make her happy. Maybe Hearts and Hooves Day wasn’t so bad after all.
