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 Sunday 21st February 1897  

Benin Burns
Wildfire,
Raging flames,
Heated air,
Miniature whirlwind of flames,
Blazing fingers of fire,
Air filled with thin black smoke, 
Gusts of wind sweeping in every direction,
Curling and wreathing it in fantastic shapes,
Everything in a blaze.
 
Fiery roaring brands swept by the wind,
Missing whole compounds,
Lighting some roof two hundred yards away,
Impromptu cyclone sweeping through compounds,
Fanning smouldering camp-fires into a blaze,
Setting fire to clothes and food in compounds.
 
Sweeping haze of smoke,
Turning the ground itself,
Into a mighty burning inferno,
Great unbearable heat,
Oozing from the volume of the flame,
Full of finely-divided ash,
From the burning dry thatch,
Irritate the eyes and throat,
Wheezing and coughing abound,
Hell is all around.

​Based on extracts from Life at Benin diary by R. Bacon (1897, p.107)


Benin is Burning

Benin is burning,
Benin is burning,
Save the bronzes,
Save the bronzes,
Fire, fire,
Fire, fire,
Where are the elders?
Where are the elders?
 
Benin is burning,
Benin is burning,
Save the bronzes,
Save the bronzes,
Fine art,
Fine art,
Bound for England,
Bound for England.



Tune: London is Burning
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