<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=399165" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Queen Victoria</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When little Victoria played <br>at the lake in Claremont Gardens<br>as a child long before she became queen, <br>did she capture a large swallowtail butterfly<br>from a reed and then pulled off its golden <br>and black veined wings<br>or was she then, innocent of such a thing? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">When little Victoria played <br>at the lake in Claremont Gardens<br>as a child long before she became queen, <br>did she trample the flowers<br>pulling the white and yellow water lilies<br>out of the lake<br>or was she then, innocent of such a thing? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">When little Victoria became a powerful queen<br>did her government go to war<br>against the Orange Free State<br>and Transvaal Republics? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Did her soldiers force women and children<br>into concentration camps <br>where twenty thousand died? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Did her soldiers kill three thousand <br>Christian farmers after demolishing their farms? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And did her government loose<br>twenty eight thousand soldiers<br>of its own? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or was she then, innocent of such things? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">[Note: My own great grandmother died in a British concentration camp and my great grandfather was sent by the British to St. Helena as a prisoner of war and as a result of this, my grandfather(Gert Strydom) grew up in a orphanage.]</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=399165" data-title="Queen Victoria de Gert Strydom" data-description="When little Victoria played at the lake in Claremont Gardens as a child long before she became queen, did she capture a large swallowtail butterfly from a reed and then pulled off its golden and black veined wings or was she then, innocent of s..."></div> </div> </div>

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