THE TRANSVAAL VOLKSLIED.
National song of the South African Republic. Know ye that folk of hero heart, yet enslaved so long? lx freedom’s cause its lifeblood shed In battle 'gainst the wrong? Come burghers, let our flags wave high! Our Buff’rings now are past! Shout to the heavens our heroes' deeds! 'free folk are we at last! Free folk are we, free folk are we, free folk, free folk, at last! Bjoow ye that land so little sought, Y*t so superbly grand? "Wh*re nature’s wondrous marvels lie, Scattered with lavish hand? shout our festal song! Here stood our hero band! Here rang our cries of victory! This is our fatherland! This lieav’nly land, this heav’nly laud, this is our father, fatherland! Know ye that state, a little child Among the world’s great powers? And yet declared by England's might As free and once more ours? Transvaalers, noble was your strife, And great our agony! But God our destiny has ruled! Praise Him that we are free! Praise to our God, praise to our God, that we are free, that we are free! —-(Translation by S. C. Cronwright-Schreiner at Hanover. December 12, 1900).
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Otago Witness, Issue 3755, 2 March 1926, Page 78
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192THE TRANSVAAL VOLKSLIED. Otago Witness, Issue 3755, 2 March 1926, Page 78
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