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                      SONG FOR "76
 (1(JfH ANNIVERSARY OF INDEPENDENCE)
                        Barolong  Seboni
           May be it is the song that I will hear
                  Perhaps it will cane through
              The patter and rustle of the Pula
       Or I may discern its force in the exploding
            Staccato of the Botswana Defence Force
             Perhaps it will not even be a song
               But a beautiful noise resounding
              From the golden echo of the Thebe:
                      Shield of the nation
                 As the bass of the bulldozer
               Replies the hlIDUning of the shaft
     While picks and shovels keep the metroocmic beat
               Pitch black sinews twang in time
         Energy burning fiercely like furnace full
                       Of t-brupule coal;
A concerto conducted from London - Johannesburg - New York
          A song can be soundly conposed and heard
              In a soothing symphonyto insulate
           'n1e ear - drum in cotton \oKJOl confort
        Against the needling insult of a castrated
                      High pitched shrill:
                       His Masters Voice