Botha's Hill Botha's Hill Botha's Hill is a small town outside Hillcrest in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It is the gateway to the Valley of a Thousand Hills. Kearsney College moved to Botha's Hill in 1939. Alan Paton, a famous author who wrote novels such as Cry, the Beloved Country and Too Late the Phalarope moved here and resided here until his death on the 12th of April, 1988. He was aged 85. The village is 37km north-west of Durban, on the old main road to Pietermaritzburg before the N3 highway was built. It was named after a settler, Philip Rudolph Botha, grandfather
O Sacred Love of the Beloved Country Stanisław August Poniatowski. The poet published it in 1774 in "Zabawy Przyjemne i Pożyteczne" (Pastimes Pleasant and Profitable). It subsequently became part of song 9 of his 1775 mock-heroic poem, ""Myszeida"" (The Mouseiad). Popular during the Enlightenment, Krasicki's patriotic poem became the anthem of the Warsaw Corps of Cadets. It has gone through many translations, including three into French. The poem is written in lines of 11 syllables, in ottava rima (rhyming ab ab ab cc). O Sacred Love of the Beloved Country "O Sacred Love of the Beloved Country" (Polish title: "Święta miłości kochanej ojczyzny"; also, "Hymn do miłości