<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=399767" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Voortrekker (in answer to Tony Harrison)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A track from a kraal<br>goes direct into the veldt<br>decked in blood<br>from the remains of cattle.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sick Boer walks alone, <br>now abandoned of dog, <br>children, farm labourers<br>with a.303 rifle wavering in his hands.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Somewhere in dense green bushes<br>in front of him to the right<br>lions roar and at speed<br>one, two and three more<br>appear with tails flashing like whips.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The rifle is still wavering in his hands<br>but an expert eye finds the sight<br>with the trigger at his finger tip, <br>the exploding sound of bullet after bullet<br>are followed by a whack and some great roars<br>and the lions are no more</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and like his fathers protected in God’s hand, <br>although outnumbered many times<br>by natives and wild beasts<br>stand a lonely believing man.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[Reference: Voortrekker by Tony Harrison.]</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=399767" data-title="The Voortrekker (in answer to Tony Harrison) de Gert Strydom" data-description="A track from a kraal goes direct into the veldt decked in blood from the remains of cattle. The sick Boer walks alone, now abandoned of dog, children, farm labourers with a.303 rifle wavering in his hands. Somewhere in dense green bushes in fr..."></div> </div> </div>

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