<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=398472" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>In front of a firing squad</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Japie almost burns himself<br>when he mess some coffee <br>and it’s still dark, <br>when at four o’clock one morning<br>British soldiers arrive<br>at the Greyling’s farm.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There’s an Afrikaner farm boy<br>standing against the wall<br>of a farm house<br>and English Captain Jack Seeley, <br>wants to know to where<br>his father’s Boer commando is going? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Japie Greyling refuses<br>to say anything about it<br>and Jack Seeley<br>order his men, <br>to aim at an Afrikaner boy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Six British Martini Henri rifles<br>are pointed at a ten year old child<br>and he hears gunlock after gunlock<br>closing behind a bullet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I ask you a last time<br>says the relentless Englishman<br>and a Boer boy<br>looks into death, <br>but still there’s nothing<br>that he lets out about his people</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The British Captain keeps<br>walking nervously up and down<br>and the blue eyes<br>of a Boer boy, <br>cuts right through him<br>and the child says<br>let death then come, <br>but talk I wont.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All the British soldiers <br>are astounded by the courage<br>that comes from an Afrikaner child<br>and on command, <br>the rifles are lowered<br>before they ride away<br>and Japie Greyling<br>is left alive.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>[References: Historic heroic story of Japie (Jacobus Johannes Cornelis) Greyling during the second Anglo-Boer war. The poem “Japie Greyling” by J.F.E Celliers. The book “Fear and Be Slain” by Jack Seeley.]</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=398472" data-title="In front of a firing squad de Gert Strydom" data-description="Japie almost burns himself when he mess some coffee and it’s still dark, when at four o’clock one morning British soldiers arrive at the Greyling’s farm. There’s an Afrikaner farm boy standing against the wall of a farm house and Englis..."></div> </div> </div>

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