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Joshua Hart

Adebayo Sir Toby

Do you remember a brave girl?
She has been engaged by parents
To a man who was full of blaspheme;
But now she refused to marry him.

Men were angry,wanted her killed;
But she said,'Kill me,it is the body,
That will suffer and not my spirit;
I'll give it to death for christ's benefit.

Have you heard of Joshua hart of bonny?
The first Nigerian to die for his faith;
You could read it in your primary days,
Christians who suffered in divers ways.

It was a great honor to be made bishop
His diocese was big unlike ones we see today
But was not wanted and treated as outsider
I think this happened to Bishop Crowther.

As nihilists made more troubles,
When he spoke against slave trading
Or the ignoramus murdering of pairs;
Or Dandeson killing the sacred gilas.

Being a slave,he worked so hard;
In the 1880,when he came to Lagos
He was said to be big teller of old tale,
He died and now his own story too is detailed.

(C) Adebayo Sir Toby
08/31/2020


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