"And only then I realize, how much my freedom meant When the searchlight from the gunboat Casts it's rays upon my tent"
— Second Boer War

January 1, 1970

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Original Language: English

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From The Searchlight, a poem by Joubert Reitz while prisoner of war in Bermuda