The titles of his works are indices to their contents.

Among them are _De Ouderdom_, Old Age; _Buyten Leven_, Out-of-Doors Life; _Hofgedachten_, Garden Thoughts; _Gedachten op Slapelooze Nachten_, Thoughts of Sleepless Nights; _Trouwring_, Marriage Ring; _Zelfstrijt_, Self-struggle, etc.

Never was a poet so essentially the poet of the people.

He is always intelligible--always sensible--and, as was well said of him by Kruijff, Smiling he teaches truth, and sporting wins to virtue." When President Kruger died last year the memoirs of him agreed in fixing upon the Bible as his only reading.

But I am certain he knew Vader Cats by heart too.