PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
THE EMIGRANTS.
THE BECHUANA BOY.
AFAR IN THE DESERT.
EVENING RAMBLES.
THE LION HUNT.
THE LION AND THE GIRAFFE.
THE DESOLATE VALLEY.
THE CORANNA.
SONG OF THE WILD BUSHMAN.
THE CAPTIVE OF CAMALÚ.
THE BROWN HUNTER'S SONG.
THE BUSHMAN.
THE CAPE OF STORMS.
THE HOTTENTOT.
THE CAFFER.
THE GHONA WIDOW'S LULLABY.
THE KOSA.
MAKANNA'S GATHERING.
THE INCANTATION.
THE CAFFER COMMANDO.
THE ROCK OF RECONCILEMENT.
THE FORESTER OF THE NEUTRAL GROUND. A SOUTH AFRICAN BORDER BALLAD.
THE EMIGRANT'S CABIN AT THE CAPE. AN EPISTLE IN RHYME.
THE VOLUNTEERS OF ENGLAND. BY A COLONIST.
" THE DEAR OLD LAND. "
THE FUNERAL IN THE ABBEY.
A FAREWELL TO ENGLISH FRIENDS.
A MISSIONARY'S LAST FAREWELL TO ENGLAND.
A REMINISCENCE OF 1820.
PAST AND PRESENT.
A SOUTH AFRICAN WILDERNESS.
A SUNRISE THOUGHT AT "COVE ROCK."
AN OCEAN SUNSET.
A SIGHT FROM THE SHORE.
THE THUNDERSTORM AT BATHURST.
A MORNING WISH FOR A FRIEND.
A NIGHT THOUGHT.
THE LITTLE SHELL AT COVE ROCK.
A TRIBUTE OF SYMPATHY TO THE DEFENDERS OF GLEN LYNDEN.
THE COLOURS OF THE FIRST 24 TH . RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED TO THE
OUR BOYS.
IN THE DROUGHT LANDS OF SOUTH AFRICA. THE RAIN.
THE LANDING OF THE BRITISH SETTLERS OF 1820. ( Written on
IN THE COUNTRY OF MANKORAAN. (NORTH OF THE VAAL RIVER, DECEMBER, 1882.)
DRINK.
SOUTH AFRICA REDIVIVA.
THE BEAUTFUL ISLAND OF DREAMS.
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.
GOOD HOPE.
ODE. ( From Horace. Lib. ii. Od. 18.)
AFTER A STORM.
AMMAP AND GRIET. A LEGEND OF THE 'NOSOP.
SONNETS OF THE CAPE. I. GOVERNMENT GARDENS, CAPE TOWN. O ft ,
THE FADED PHOTOGRAPH. TO MY FRIEND, DAVID C , BATH, SOMERSETSHIRE.
EVELEEN.
FAREWELL TO MADEIRA.
FAREWELL TO FIFTY-FIVE.
" LEAD, KINDLY LIGHT. "
" SHOULD IT BE ACCORDING TO THY MIND. " ( Job xxxiv 33.)
TO GRAAFF REINET.
HYMN. WRITTEN DURING THE ZULU WAR.
THE LAMENT OF THE GUTTER LATELY FILLED UP BY AN UNPOETICAL MUNICIPALITY.
MY "SALTED" STEED.
A ROMANCE FROM THE FIELDS. A COLONIAL BALLAD.
THE FLIGHT OF THE AMAKOSA. A RIFLE CORPS LEGEND.
AN IDYL OF A PRINCE. (NOT AFTER TENNYSON.)
A CHRISTMAS APPARITION. A BIL-IOUS LEGEND.
FREEDOM'S HOME.
THE GALLANT "TEUTON."
THE SUNNY HILLS OF AFRICA.
THE SOUTHERN CROSS. AN ODE.
HON. WILLIAM PORTER, C.M.G. AN ELEGY.
ODE ON THE BRITISH SETTLERS' YEAR OF JUBILEE. NAM QUI HOEC DICUNT, PALAM OSTENDUNT SE PATRIAM QUOERERE.
DIVES REDIVIVUS.
THE BURGHERS' GATHERING.
STORM IN TUGELA VALLEY, NATAL.
THE NATAL GOLD DIGGINGS. TO GREENHORNS.
NATURE. A DAY ON THE HILLS, IN NATAL.
CONTENTMENT. FOR MY MOTHER.
NOT HERE.
REVELATION XXII. VERSIFIED.
EZEKIEL XLVII. 1-12.
CHANGE.
HEAVENLY FRIENDSHIP.
LINES WRITTEN IN AN ALBUM.
THE DEFENCE OF RORKE'S DRIFT. JANUARY 22-23, 1879.
" RORKE'S DRIFT. " JANUARY 22, 1879.
BEFORE ULUNDI.
THE BARON'S ADVENTURE. (A FACT.)
SOUTH AFRICAN COURTSHIP.
THE BETTER LAND. AFTER SHEMANS.
" DOLLY. " A REMEMBRANCE.
GOING HOME. FROM THE TRANSVAAL TO ENGLAND.
THE OXFORD BIBLE. ON WORN-OUT SAILS BEING USED AS MATERIAL FOR
THE LAST MISSION OF THE SAILS.
THE WORN-OUT SAILS.
IN MEMORIAM.
EPITAPH ON A DIAMOND DIGGER.
AFRIC'S GREETING TO HER ROYAL HIGHNESS ALEXANDRA, PRINCESS OF WALES, ON HER WEDDING DAY, MARCH 10, 1863.
ROBERT GODLINTON.
THE DIAMOND DIGGER. ON FINDING HIS FIRST LARGE DIAMOND. ( From the drama "I. D. B." )
THE LAST OF THE BOWKERS. A DIRGE.
THE DRUNKARD'S CHILD. FOUNDED ON ONE OF J. B. GOUGH'S THRILLING ANECDOTES.
THE ANGEL'S MESSAGE.
THE "CHURL" OF THE PERIOD; AND ANOTHER. A LEGEND OF THE PAST,
WELCOME.
PRECEPTS FOR YOUNG AND OLD.
BE KIND TO ONE ANOTHER.
PADDY'S LOVE SYMPTOMS. FOR MUSIC.
PROVERBIAL PHILOSOPHY OF HUMBUG.
PLATTEKLIP CASCADE.
THE PORT ELIZABETH PYRAMID.
" IN MEMORIAM. " THE REV. R. TEMPLETON, WHO DIED IN THE ZUURBERG FOREST, JANUARY 1886.
" LORD! WHAT IS MAN THAT THOU ART MINDFUL OF HIM! "
THE RHYME OF THE OX-WAGON. (A MODEST PENDANT TO PRINGLE'S "AFAR IN THE DESERT.")
THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. A PATRIOTIC SONG.
THE ERYTHRINA TREE. A CAROL OF THE WOODS.
THE
POETRY OF SOUTH AFRICA.
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