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They recruited William Evans	A
From the ploughtail and the spade	B
Ten years' service in the Devons	A
Left him smart as they are made	B
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Thirty or a trifle older	C
Rather over six foot high	D
Trim of waist and broad of shoulder	C
Yellow haired and blue of eye	D
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Short of speech and very solid	E
Fixed in purpose as a rock	F
Slow deliberate and stolid	E
Of the real West country stock	F
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He had never been to college	G
Got his teaching in the corps	A
You can pick up useful knowledge	H
'Twixt Saltash and Singapore	A
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Old Field Cornet Piet van Celling	F
Lived just northward of the Vaal	I
And he called his white washed dwelling	F
Blesbock Farm Rhenoster Kraal	I
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In his politics unbending	F
Stern of speech and grim of face	A
He pursued the never ending	F
Quarrel with the English race	A
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Grizzled hair and face of copper	C
Hard as nails from work and sport	J
Just the model of a Dopper	C
Of the fierce old fighting sort	J
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With a shaggy bearded quota	K
On commando at his order	C
He went off with Louis Botha	K
Trekking for the British border	C
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When Natal was first invaded	E
He was fighting night and day	L
Then he scouted and he raided	M
With De Wet and Delaney	N
	-
Till he had a brush with Plumer	C
Got a bullet in his arm	O
And returned in sullen humour	C
To the shelter of his farm	O
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Now it happened that the Devons	A
Moving up in that direction	P
Sent their Colour Sergeant Evans	A
Foraging with half a section	P
	-
By a friendly Dutchman guided	E
A Van Eloff or De Vilier	C
They were promptly trapped and hided	E
In a manner too familiar	C
	-
When the sudden scrap was ended	E
And they sorted out the bag	F
Sergeant Evans lay extended	E
Mauseritis in his leg	F
	-
So the Kaffirs bore him cursing	F
From the scene of his disaster	C
And they left him to the nursing	F
Of the daughters of their master	C
	-
Now the second daughter Sadie mdash	Q
But the subject why pursue	A
Wounded youth and tender lady	E
Ancient tale but ever new	A
	-
On the stoep they spent the gloaming	F
Watched the shadows on the veldt	E
Or she led her cripple roaming	F
To the eucalyptus belt	E
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He would lie and play with Jacko	F
The baboon from Bushman's Kraal	I
Smoked Magaliesberg tobacco	F
While she lisped to him in Taal	I
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Till he felt that he had rather	C
He had died amid the slaughter	C
If the harshness of the father	C
Were not softened in the daughter	C
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So he asked an English question	P
And she answered him in Dutch	Q
But her smile was a suggestion	P
And he treated it as such	Q
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Now among Rhenoster kopjes	A
Somewhat northward of the Vaal	I
You may see four little chappies	A
Three can walk and one can crawl	I
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And the blue of Transvaal heavens	A
Is reflected in their eyes	A
Each a little William Evans	A
Smaller model pocket size	A
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Each a little Burgher Piet	E
Of the hardy Boer race	A
Two great peoples seem to meet	E
In the tiny sunburned face	A
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And they often greatly wonder	C
Why old granddad and Papa	K
Should have been so far asunder	C
Till united by mamma	K
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And when asked Are you a Boer	C
Or a little Englishman	P
Each will answer short and sure	C
I am a South African	P
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But the father answers chaffing	F
Africans but British too	E
And the children echo laughing	F
Half of mother half of you	E
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It may seem a crude example	I
In an isolated case	A
But the story is a sample	I
Of the welding of the race	A
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So from bloodshed and from sorrow	F
From the pains of yesterday	E
Comes the nation of to morrow	F
Broadly based and built to stay	E
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Loyal spirits strong in union	P
Joined by kindred faith and blood	E
Brothers in the wide communion	P
Of our sea girt brotherhood	E

Arthur Conan Doyle

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