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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=397706" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Blood River</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">They came in thousands<br>and their spear points glitter, <br>while the sun’s first rays<br>folds over the plain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the laager the men are drinking coffee <br>and are eating biltong and gather, <br>to read out of the bible<br>and to pray<br>and make a holy oath and covenant <br>with the Almighty God<br>to stop an overwhelming foe.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Out of the fog they rise<br>and the impi forms<br>in into all its battle lines, <br>like a storm sea<br>of which the waves gather ominous<br>to smash to pieces.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At every wagon there’s thorn branches<br>and four hundred and seventy Boer farmers<br>stand with their flintlock guns, <br>while the women and children<br>are melting lead at the fires<br>and they wait fearless on the enemy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Their war cries hangs chilling<br>and Abatagati resounds<br>like thunder out thousands of mouths, <br>while the impi<br>storms in a killing frenzy to the wagons<br>and spears like a swarm of bees<br>fill the air<br>and descent deadly.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shooting and loading<br>are repeated without end<br>and rifle barrels get red hot, <br>while thousands storm almost unstoppable<br>to spear and bash dead.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Lord hears<br>and thousands are stopped<br>in their tracts<br>and before the dark night comes<br>the river’s water is blood<br>and on the battle field<br>three thousand Zulu warriors are dead<br>and Umhlela and Dambuza<br>and their whole impi, <br>is destroyed<br>and there is nobody<br>to return to Dingaan.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[References: Abatagati=> Kill the magicians. Dingaan=> Zulu king. Umhlela and Dambuza=>Captain’s of Dingaan.=> Dingaan’s generals. Impi=> Zulu army. At Isandlwana 1329 British soldiers died en and at Rorke's Drift eleven people were declared heroes and still they could not stop death against the Zulu impi. Only three Boer Voortrekkers were wounded at Blood River and they had faith in a Almighty God.]</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 their spear points glitter, 
while the sun’s first rays
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In the laager the men are drinking coffee 
and are eating biltong and gather, 
to read out of the bible
and to pray
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