LLM Mbatha

Ngifisa sengathi ungangibhalela incwadi
Incwadi yothando yesiZulu
Esho ngemibalabala na ngamabalabala
Axoxa indaba ejulile yemizwa nemicabango
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I-Tafula angeke liphinde lihlangane ne Fuji
Asibe nje ngemifula, s'thandwa
Imifulakazi, hhayi izintaba
Ohanjeni lwayo loku yo busisa ilizwekazi
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ekuseni bewu finqekile
okwesibhakela saMandla
manje sewuvuleke uthe nge
okwenhliziyo yentomb' ithand' isoka
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Olwami uthando olwamahhala
Lukhululekile, luyakukhulula
Ukuthi ube yikho lokho
Ofisa ukuba yikho
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Ngingu mfokazi nje
Wase dolojaneni elincinane
Elisele emuva
Lapho uthando lusewu thando
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khala zome nhliziyo yami
usuyangala 'thululu' wami

Awu, angazi
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Ngisahamba kuwo ohlabayo umhlabathi
Ngisawahlafuna wona anhlamvana amabele
Ithemba lami lihleli kuwe M’Veli-Nqangi
Ngoba wena uyiLanga lama langa ami
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There is a man that's so hollow
Nothing fills him up
Though he keeps on going on
His thirst is always rife
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All Wisdom comes from God
I have God on my side;
That makes me a very Wise Man-
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Kwacishizibani, kwahlwemini!
Zatheleka ezakwaZulu zingangotshani
Habo! Kwachitheka gula-linamasi!
Kwash’ izikhotha
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iyona kanye inkumbulo yoku mamatheka kwakho
nayo lemicabango yo-kuthi siyobonana futhi
eyenza usuku lwami luvele luphelele
ngisho noma imvula ingishaya kuzwele
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Bekezela Sibusiso, kuba m'nyama lapho sekuzokusa
Uze ungalilahli elakho ithemba
Beka konke kuM’Dali wakho yena okuqinisayo
Akumise ngazo zombili
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Ngihambile isikhath’ eside
Ngakushiya sithandwa sami
Ngangingazi kuyoba nzima
Ukuhlala ngentombi ulinde
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There is a certain
CALMNESS
About
The Zulu girl
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mhla lengubo igugile
ngiyo ndizela phezulu
ngize ngi zilahlele
ezingalweni zika Jehova
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there’s a bright patch of green
on the Table’s lap
but I cannot see the sun
from where I sit
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Akusikhona okwethu mngani wami
Umzuzu nomzuzu siweboleka kuThixo
Konke esiyikho kungokwakhe, kusezandleni
Zakhe ukuthi sisayobuye sibonane yini
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Language carries in it the history of a people
The history that begins way before
The conception of that particular language
Every myth, idiom, or story told carries
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When this Cloth gets too old
I shall take this Flight
Into the Arms of JAH, and
He will forget the Sin
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Ngifisa sengathi bengingakwazi
Ukwakha ubukhosi
Ubukhosi obunesithunzi kanye nomnotho
Ngama gama nje qha
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