<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=578952" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The White African</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The White African</div><div style="margin:10px 0">By<br>Ross Dix-Peek</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Over the great ocean seas <br>My ancestors did choose to flee, <br>Europe’s rumblings and poverty, <br>And to “Darkest Africa” did journey</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was many, many years past, <br>When Queen Vic’ was still at the mast, <br>When my forebears resolute did come, <br>To live beneath the great African sun</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Since has Mother Africa suckled our young<br>To us her lullabies and sweet songs sung, <br>And all this time ‘neath her fiery mantle<br>Did my people in Africa live, toil and battle</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Africa is not for the mild and the meek, <br>It's no place at all for the feeble and the weak, <br>And the days oft be savage and so very long, <br>Yes, it's only for the brave and the very strong</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Many generations did pass, and many years shorn, <br>Before I too upon African soil was born, <br>Like my fathers’ before, a White African, <br>Created and cast beneath her scorching sun</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And although I have since her rugged shores left, <br>My soul to Mother Africa’s bosom will forever be cleft, <br>And though I may miss the tight embrace of an African sun, <br>It matters not, for I will forever be a White African!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ross+DixPeek">Ross DixPeek</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=578952" data-title="The White African de Ross DixPeek" data-description="The White African By Ross Dix-Peek Over the great ocean seas My ancestors did choose to flee, Europe’s rumblings and poverty, And to “Darkest Africa” did journey It was many, many years past, When Queen Vic’ was still at the mast, ..."></div> </div> </div>

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