At the gate beside the river where the trouty shallows brawl, I know the pride that Lobengula felt, When he bade the bars be lowered of the Royal Cattle Kraal, And fifteen miles of oxen took the veldt.

Analysis (ai): Rudyard Kipling's poem "Alnaschar and the Oxen" is an ode to pastoral life, depicting the beauty and tranquility found in nature. Unlike his other works, which often explore imperial themes and adventure, this poem captures the serenity and joy of rural existence.

And fifteen miles of oxen took the veldt. To where the Mount of Council cuts the blue . . . With my Sussex Cattle feeding in the dew! Level-backed and level-bellied watch 'em move. And the tail set low for flesh to make above! And those eyes of Juno, overlooking all! To his even-branching ivory, dusk-tipped horn.

Alnaschar and the Oxen (in Short Poetry Collection 132 ) There's a pasture in a valley where the hanging woods divide, And a Herd lies down and ruminates in peace; Where the pheasant rules the nooning, and the owl the twilight tide, And the war-cries of our world die out and cease. Here I cast aside the burden that each weary week-day brings

That breaks the veldt around; And foreign constellations west Each night above his mound. II. Young Hodge the Drummer never knew— Fresh from his Wessex home— The meaning of the broad Karoo, The Bush, the dusty loam, And why uprose …

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The Zulu ox is the best-bred animal , but small and unserviceable , when compared to the bastard Zulu or Natal ox-, which thrives on both the sour veldt , or coast grass , and upon the sweet , or up-country veldt .

At the gate beside the river where the trouty shallows brawl, I know the pride that Lobengula felt, When he bade the bars be lowered of the Royal Cattle Kraal, And fifteen miles of oxen took the veldt.

Mar 13, 2019 · Two boxes of Hat Ox Wagons completed to replace some old Atlantic wagons I have used with my Zulus for too many years. The problem is the shortage of Oxen in the kits so I will have to rework some of the old oxen to use with these.

Boer Supply Train Crossing the Veldt: Hundreds of heavily laden oxen trekking over the Veldt, many Zulu and drivers wielding 20-foot whips over their teams.