FAREWELL ADDRESS TO SIR GEORGE GREY.
From Arapeta Tupunakore, a Chief of the Ngatiporou of THE East Coast. In the days of the month our sentiments of affection were written to our Father the Governor. Go hence O great and respected one ! the protector of man, woman and child. You are leaving the land and the people in peace. Go O Sire to your own land and to your people ! and when you have seen them, return to us your children whom you leave solitary and sad. The end. A ■ S O N G. Sua lingcrint; in ilio West, athwart the gleam of blue llrijjht clouds of varied hue! 1 heed you not fair evo ! For llio loved one soon will leave, Ami 1 must haste away. O lot us both escape to yonder sunny land ! For lliorc the ruthless haml ()l death, may never smite ! Ami let mo sec that lan,l of light, And sojourn with tlico there. S O X 6. Near Tnkajmna's * headland, thou O (iovcrnor art sailing ; Ah I thou art hastening from me, now, Whilst I'm my fate bewailing ; For evils riso on every hand, To mar the ijuiet of llie land. These are the whole of my sentiments of affection for you. The words of anothet song are:— Since others love thee, I may not suppress My fond affection. Truo thou art nbsent,— Hut who J ask lint robbed me of the loving Friend whom all the tribes revere 1 (Signed) AIIAI'KTA TuPUN'AKOKK.
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Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume VI, Issue 135, 25 February 1854, Page 2
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249FAREWELL ADDRESS TO SIR GEORGE GREY. Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume VI, Issue 135, 25 February 1854, Page 2
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