TE REINGA.
"With Death behind me with his goad, Soon I must go to the last, la.st road— • That narrow, dreary, twilight trackWhere, drifting slowly, yearning back, < Between two worlds, our souls must go, .With slinking lizards gfeen to show The way to dim Te Eeinga., ' bilent, without a breath or moan, Yet knowing I am not alone, I, in my placo in that long line, Shall find, perchance, some human sign, ' Shall seo tno lightly trodden grass, !Where all unseen, the shadows pass Their way to- lono Te Keinga, ' And in the ranks of marching dead, The narrow, twilight path I tread, And see where lialf-remombering lingers Borne spirit lono, with futile fingers ' Tying a knot of waving grass, To show the way that I must pass To Night and dark Te Keinga. 'And so onß last look I shall give To all these green things that may live When I no more may see the sky; Then with shut lips, no moan nor cry, But as a warrior who has won, His'last fight when all wars are done, Shall leap from grim To Keinga. a Arthur • Adams.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1746, 10 May 1913, Page 11
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189TE REINGA. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1746, 10 May 1913, Page 11
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