The Brits really were a rum bunch back then
In the nineteenth-century and earlier
Take Southern Africa, someone take them
Well Britain took everything, and that's where
It was trying to grab land, even where
Other colonists had arrived there first
Such as the Dutch emigrant and farmer
(Or 'Boer' in Dutch), not forgetting the cursed
Africans themselves, Hottentots, or worse
Those warlike Zulus, spear-carrying men
Of great height and width, seeming without fear
Yet Cetshwayo, their king, did his utmost
To placate Bartle Frere's war-provoking
Policies, pitting guns against the spear
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