<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=399778" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The witch of Hex River</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">According to legend<br>a beautiful girl<br>Eliza Meiring stayed </div><div style="margin:10px 0">on the farm Buffelskraal<br>at the foot<br>of the mountains</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and so many suitors<br>were interested in her<br>that she would only<br>be the girlfriend of the man<br>that brought her a red disa flower.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">These ground orchids <br>only grow on the highest peaks<br>and it was extremely difficult<br>to get the flower.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The few guys that tried<br>quickly got discouraged<br>but Frans whom she really loved</div><div style="margin:10px 0">climbed up Groothoek ravine<br>against a wet moss covered cliff<br>and there fell to his death.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Eliza was deranged <br>when she heard the news<br>and was kept by her parents<br>in the loft of their house<br>where she notched Eliza Meiring 1868<br>onto the wooden windowsill</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and one night<br>she got the top window open, <br>went down to the ground, <br>wearing her long white night gown</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and climbed the foot hills<br>and sat down crying on a rock<br>which suddenly crumbled beneath her<br>and she also fell to her death.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is said<br>that when the first winter snow<br>falls on that mountains<br>and the moon rises<br>glittering on them</div><div style="margin:10px 0">her spirit dwells <br>on the mountain peaks<br>and that she still mourns<br>the death of her lover.</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=399778" data-title="The witch of Hex River de Gert Strydom" data-description="According to legend a beautiful girl Eliza Meiring stayed on the farm Buffelskraal at the foot of the mountains and so many suitors were interested in her that she would only be the girlfriend of the man that brought her a red disa flower. The..."></div> </div> </div>

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