LAMENT FOR JABEZ BUNTING RANGIATAAHUA.
By his Wife, te Paea.
The star Kopu harbinger of morn Appears in view, an emblem this of the beloved, Methinks returningio me. My flock of liny birds, left here to droop Without a father, o'er you I mourn, to, distant in the south, Taupiri rears its head ?n solitude, while the waters of the Manukau Are rippling onward. Death has severed thee from us; and thou Wast borne to heaven, ere we had time To fasten in thine ear thy-heir loom Motutara. Come back 0 father and betako thyself To thy accustomed slumbers in thy dwelling. The cord that gives vitality to this frail heart, I hold, and fain would cut asunder; For he who was my talking bird, that sung. S0 1 sweetly at the dawn of day, has Disappeared for ever from my gaze.
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Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume II, Issue 7, 31 July 1856, Page 11
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142LAMENT FOR JABEZ BUNTING RANGIATAAHUA. Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume II, Issue 7, 31 July 1856, Page 11
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