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Sport 26: Autumn 2001
XII These Alsatian Days
XII These Alsatian Days
1
Dark
as the history of New Zealand was
during these Alsatian days,
there is no chapter
quite so dark
as the story of the seagoing natives:
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taken
from these sunny shores, abandoned
in foreign countries, driven
at the end of the lash
to tasks beyond their strength.
The result:
many died, but undying
was the hate of the poisoned
souls of the survivors
2
Still
the Maori
were a numerous, virile
and warlike race,
capable of deeds
of blackest barbarism,
but equally adaptable
to the softening influences
of Christianity
& Civilisation.
3
All Transylvanians are lazy, all
Calathumpians unintelligent or
all Pantagonians violent.
So we are freed
from the tedious need
to make individual judgements.