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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=397363" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>a Brave Boer boy</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">At Italeni the bushes come alive<br>and abound with a horde of Zulu’s, <br>of which the spears glitter<br>and some are at the peak <br>of a hillock<br>and others on the plane.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Blood and fat<br>are spread over their faces<br>and they are raging<br>and in a blood thirsty trance<br>and scream luring<br>and tipple with a ritteltit war dance<br>and clubs and shields, <br>are thrown into the air<br>while spears flash into the air.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the cloudless blue sky<br>an eagle flies past screaming, <br>while Boer horsemen<br>are riding past with guns at the ready.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Father and son gallop next to each other<br>and the hoofs of the horses hang thundering, <br>as far as they go.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When the first Zulu’s are in striking distance<br>they fire at them<br>and the front warriors fall<br>and the rest turns about<br>and run into the bushes<br>and cliffs.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The commando breaks into smaller groups<br>and the fleeing Zulu impi <br>are followed<br>and Dirk rides side to side with his dad, <br>to help the Malan brothers<br>where they are trapped in the cliffs.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Suddenly a whole impi of murderously mad Zulu’s<br>are around them<br>and Piet Uys’s gun <br>is jammed<br>and he stops to fix it<br>and out of the air a spear falls<br>that penetrates him.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He tell his men to ride away<br>but Dirkie wants to stay<br>and he rides only a hundred steps away, <br>when he hears the war cry<br>of a lot of Zulu’s<br>that storm to his father.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Horse and son becomes one<br>and horse and son<br>burst galloping through the Zulu’s<br>and he shoots three down, <br>but he is murderously <br>speared from his horse<br>and one flintlock gun that breaks<br>cannot stop a horde of spears.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Father and son lies together<br>while a Zulu impi<br>dances with joy up and down<br>and in the bright blue sky<br>an Eagle screams while it passes<br>while death<br>embraces both men.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At times when a storm <br>rises over that long hillock<br>people hear horse hoofs<br>rushing over the earth<br>and a rifle that thunders, <br>while shadows<br>threaten and creep nearer<br>and the cry of an Eagle<br>sounds over the cliffs.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[Reference: The heroic story of Dirkie Uys. Impi=> a Zulu army.]</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>
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and abound with a horde of Zulu’s, 
of which the spears glitter
and some are at the peak 
of a hillock
and others on the plane.

Blood and fat
are spread over their faces
and they are raging
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