<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=397354" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>1899-1902 (Cavatina Sequence) (In Answer To A. E. Housman)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">From the Orange Free State to the Transvaal<br>farms and towns burn, <br>from concentration camps women, children, <br>do not return, <br>up in the hillocks European farmers fight; <br>not taciturn<br>Emily Hobhouse does expose some ills, <br>many innocents the British do kill.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hard driven men who read the word of God<br>fight very brave, <br>hear the British sing their God save their Queen; <br>they cannot save<br>some twenty thousand women and children, <br>but they do crave<br>for freedom and for a place of their own, <br>are forced to swear loyal to the crown.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">After that bitter war they have to sing<br>'God save the queen, '<br>return to decimated farms and towns, <br>their pain unseen, <br>impoverished they make a living, <br>for peace are keen; <br>to today their kinsmen do not forget, <br>in God's record His punishment is set.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gert+Strydom">Gert Strydom</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=397354" data-title="1899-1902 (Cavatina Sequence) (In Answer To A. E. Housman) de Gert Strydom" data-description="From the Orange Free State to the Transvaal farms and towns burn, from concentration camps women, children, do not return, up in the hillocks European farmers fight; not taciturn Emily Hobhouse does expose some ills, many innocents the Britis..."></div> </div> </div>

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