<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=397895" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Eastern Transvaal</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Against the edge of the kopje a homestead is standing<br>with a pretty garden in contrast to the red-brown dust, <br>a place of rest grounded on the expertise of the farmer, <br>displaying his handiwork.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When thunder falls above on the top of the hillock<br>he sits at ease with a pipe in his mouth, <br>at his feet his darling pedigree dog lies<br>and they smell the fragrance of the rain that is showering down</div><div style="margin:10px 0">while the eyes of the farmer wanders over the hillock<br>where aloes, sugar bushes and wild plums grow in abundance<br>next to the dense cornfield that stretches green into the distance, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">the blessings from God showers down everywhere<br>and everything that farmer owns multiplies<br>as if the hand of God covers his life mightily.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>[After Elisabeth Eybers/Reference: Wes-Transvaal (Western Transvaal) by Elisabeth Eybers.]</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=397895" data-title="Eastern Transvaal de Gert Strydom" data-description="Against the edge of the kopje a homestead is standing with a pretty garden in contrast to the red-brown dust, a place of rest grounded on the expertise of the farmer, displaying his handiwork. When thunder falls above on the top of the hillock ..."></div> </div> </div>

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