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Nada the Lily

Nada the Lily

Haggard, H. Rider

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Fiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 1502855445
ISBN13: 9781502855442
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Oct 16 2014
Pages: 238
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.50 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
For I will call you by the name that for fifty years has been honoured by every tribe between Zambesi and Cape Agulbas, -I greet you! Sompseu, my father, I have written a book that tells of men and matters of which you know the most of any who still look upon the light; therefore, I set your name within that book and, such as it is, I offer it to you. If you knew not Chaka, you and he have seen the same suns shine, you knew his brother Panda and his captains, and perhaps even that very Mopo who tells this tale, his servant, who slew him with the Princes. You have seen the circle of the witch-doctors and the unconquerable Zulu impis rushing to war; you have crowned their kings and shared their counsels, and with your son's blood you have expiated a statesman's error and a general's fault. Sompseu, a song has been sung in my ears of how first you mastered this people of the Zulu. Is it not true, my father, that for long hours you sat silent and alone, while three thousand warriors shouted for your life? And when they grew weary, did you not stand and say, pointing towards the ocean: Kill me if you wish, men of Cetywayo, but I tell you that for every drop of my blood a hundred avengers shall rise from yonder sea!

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