<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=397519" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Amakeia</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Protected by the mountains<br>and covered by bushes<br>the ruin of an old farmhouse stands, <br>where the shadow <br>of the past<br>still falls heavy and menacing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lulling the old black house maid Amakeia<br>rocked the baby of a white pioneer<br>softly to sleep<br>and she was faithful<br>to her promise, <br>to try and raise the child.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When she discovered<br>that danger was sneaking nearer, <br>she went to hide<br>in the mountains<br>with the baby.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As the dark night came<br>the assegais rattled<br>against the shields <br>of a horde of Maxosas, <br>that jeered like animals<br>and gathered around the woman and child.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No pleading could stop the blades<br>where the woman with her body<br>tried to protect the child<br>and the wild savage war gang, <br>speared the woman and child<br>again and again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When the winter wind cries in the Amatola cliffs<br>no devil can still hide there<br>and the song <br>of the old woman<br>cuts right trough marrow and bone, <br>while she sings <br>for the child to be silent<br>and the murder of woman and child<br>still hits right through<br>a nation of savages.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[Reference: Amakeia by A.G. Visser. An incident during 1834 war. Assegai = A spear.]</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=397519" data-title="Amakeia de Gert Strydom" data-description="Protected by the mountains and covered by bushes the ruin of an old farmhouse stands, where the shadow of the past still falls heavy and menacing. Lulling the old black house maid Amakeia rocked the baby of a white pioneer softly to sleep and s..."></div> </div> </div>

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