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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=511180" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Two Kopjes</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">(Made Yeomanry towards End of Boer War)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Only two African kopjes,<br> Only the cart-tracks that wind<br>Empty and open between 'em,<br> Only the Transvaal behind;<br>Only an Aldershot column<br> Marching to conquer the land . . .<br>Only a sudden and solemn<br> Visit, unarmed, to the Rand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Then scorn not the African kopje,<br> The kopje that smiles in the heat,<br> The wholly unoccupied kopje,<br> The home of Cornelius and Piet.<br> You can never be sure of your kopje,<br> But of this be you blooming well sure,<br> A kopje is always a kopje,<br> And a Boojer is always a Boer!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Only two African kopjes,<br> Only the vultures above,<br>Only baboons--at the bottom,<br> Only some buck on the move;<br>Only a Kensington draper<br> Only pretending to scout . . .<br>.Only bad news for the paper,<br> Only another knock-out.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br> Then mock not the African kopje, <br> And rub not your flank on its side,<br> The silent and simmering kopje,<br> The kopje beloved by the guide.<br> You can never be, etc.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Only two African kopjes,<br> Only the dust of their wheels,<br>Only a bolted commando,<br> Only our guns at their heels . . .<br>Only a little barb-wire,<br> Only a natural fort,<br>Only &quot;by sections retire,&quot;<br> Only &quot;regret to report! &quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Then mock not the .African kopje,<br> Especially when it is twins,<br> One sharp and one table-topped kopje<br> For that's where the trouble begins.<br> You never can be, etc.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Only two African kopjes<br> Baited the same as before--<br>Only we've had it so often,<br> Only we're taking no more . . .<br>Only a wave to our troopers,<br> Only our flanks swinging past,<br>Only a dozen voorloopers,.<br> Only we've learned it at last!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br> Then mock not the African kopje,<br> But take off your hat to the same,<br> The patient, impartial old kopje,<br> The kopje that taught us the game!<br> For all that we knew in the Columns,<br> And all they've forgot on the Staff,<br> We learned at the Fight o' Two Kopjes,<br> Which lasted two years an' a half.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>0 mock not the African kopje,<br> Not even when peace has been signed--<br>The kopje that isn't a kopje--<br> The kopje that copies its kind.<br>You can never be sure of your kopje,<br> But of this be you blooming well sure,<br>That a kopje is always a kopje,<br> And a Boojer is always a Boer!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rudyard+Kipling">Rudyard Kipling</a><div class=q>
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Only two African kopjes,
 Only the cart-tracks that wind
Empty and open between 'em,
 Only the Transvaal behind;
Only an Aldershot column
 Marching to conquer the land . . .
Only a sudden and solemn
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