I\n\nThey throw in Drummer Hodge, to rest\nUncoffined - just as found:\nHis landmark is a kopje-crest[footnote]Afrikaans for \"small hill.\"[\/footnote]\nThat breaks the veldt[footnote]South African grassland.[\/footnote]\u00a0around;\nAnd foreign constellations west\nEach night above his mound.\n\nII\n\nYoung Hodge the Drummer never knew -\nFresh from his Wessex home -\nThe meaning of the broad Karoo[footnote]Semi-desert region of South Africa.[\/footnote],\nThe Bush, the dusty loam,\nAnd why uprose to nightly view\nStrange stars amid the gloam.\n\nIII\n\nYet portion of that unknown plain\nWill Hodge forever be;\nHis homely Northern breast and brain\nGrow to some Southern tree,\nAnd strange-eyed constellations reign\nHis stars eternally.\n\n\u2014 1901<\/p>","rendered":"
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They throw in Drummer Hodge, to rest II<\/p>\n Young Hodge the Drummer never knew – III<\/p>\n Yet portion of that unknown plain \u2014 1901<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t
\nUncoffined – just as found:
\nHis landmark is a kopje-crest[1]<\/sup><\/a>
\nThat breaks the veldt[2]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0around;
\nAnd foreign constellations west
\nEach night above his mound.<\/p>\n
\nFresh from his Wessex home –
\nThe meaning of the broad Karoo[3]<\/sup><\/a>,
\nThe Bush, the dusty loam,
\nAnd why uprose to nightly view
\nStrange stars amid the gloam.<\/p>\n
\nWill Hodge forever be;
\nHis homely Northern breast and brain
\nGrow to some Southern tree,
\nAnd strange-eyed constellations reign
\nHis stars eternally.<\/p>\nCandela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t