SONG,
BY RAUNIKURA, GRANDMOTHER OF TE AWHE, CHIEF OF NGATITEMATERA, HAURAKI. Rain, rain, raining down from without, Here I am within, knowing net what to do, Now that the wind has moderated, the anger of the sky appears, "Very great, 0 Waero, is the fame of your hatchets: Why give you not one to me to suspend at my wrist, That I may bear off the sapling which grows in the wood. But here 1 sit doubled up like an invalid, My thighs bent up beneath me, As one who is on a journey. 0 wind, oh ! for thy swiftness, To whirl me off to the mists of Pounui. Were I only once there, Nothing should tempt me to return, To be an object of commiseration, For those at home to weep over--Eh !
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Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume I, Issue 16, 15 November 1861, Page 16
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133SONG, Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume I, Issue 16, 15 November 1861, Page 16
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