Joshua Hart Poem by Chukwuebuka Adebayo

Do you remember a brave girl？
Which had been engaged by parents
To a man who was full of blaspheme;
But now she refused to marry him.

Men were angry, wanted her killed;
But she said, 'Kill me, it is the body,
That will suffer and not my spirit;
I'll give it to death for christ's benefit.

Have you heard of Joshua hart of bonny？
The first Nigerian to die for his faith;
You could read it in your primary days,
Christians who suffered in divers ways.

It was a great honor to be made bishop
His diocese was big unlike ones we see today
But was not wanted and treated as outsider
I think this happened to Bishop Crowther.

As nihilists made more troubles,
When he spoke against slave trading
Or the ignoramus murdering of pairs;
Or Dandeson killing the sacred gilas.

Being a slave, he worked so hard;
In the 1880, when he came to Lagos
He was said to be big teller of old tale,
He died and now his own story too is detailed.