Songs Of The Veld And Other Poems PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ... two june pictures. I. In England, now, the Spring has come and gone, And leafy June decks out the world with green; A gorgeous yellow robe the meadows don, And warm live sunshine gladdens all the scene. The lark's mad song drops from the blue serene; The rich warm scent of hay perfumes the air; The child laughs out with rapture wild and keen--No mountain brook more glad, more free from care. Land of my thoughts, wherever I may rove, What peace and plenty reign o'er land and lea! God! What a sweetness in each field and grove! Surely the blessed little isle must be The object of the All-Father's special love, Set like His jewel in the Northern sea! ii. Endless to view spreads out the desolate plain--Here is no song of bird, no sunny gleam--B Chill, dank and chill, streams down the pitiless rain; Winter and War--dread consorts--reign supreme. No ruddy firelight shows its cheerful beam, But blackened rafters, gaunt against the sky, Like grim uplifted fingers, ever seem To call down some swift vengeance from on high. Hark! the sad moan, beyond that guarded line, Of children wan, pining for warmth and bread. England, behold thy prisoners! All are thine, With bareness clothed and on famine fed. Proud England, till thou, too, shalt peak and pine That innocent blood shall rest upon thy head. Cape Town, June 18th, 1901. the last march of lotter'S commando. The Special Correspondent of the "Cape Times," under date September 5, announced the capture of Lotter's Commando, after a desperate fight. The Commando occupied two kraals and a shed in a natural basin on Groen Kloof, near Pietersburg. The "Graaf Reinet Advertiser," of September 6, describing the battle and the surrender, said, "The sight which presented itself in