THE SIEGE OF PARIHAKA.

Temuka Leader, Issue 702, 26 November 1881, Page 3

THE SIEGE OF PARIHAKA.

The following parody on the ‘ Death of Sir John Moore,’ is from the pen of ‘Frank budge,’ in the New Zealand Public Opinion Not a drum was heard, not a bugler’s note, As our troops to the ramparts we hurried ; And only one rifleman let off a shot, He got so confoundedly flurried. ’Twas accident merely ; some said he was tight, His togs caught the trigger while turning To borrow a chew from the man on his right, With ardor each soldier was burning. To Wl.iti and Tohu were biking a rest, Their wives and their people around ’em, W« brought the old warriors out of their nest, Then collared Hiroki and bound him. Few and short were the words that they said. They looked not in anger, but sorrow, They stedfastly gazed on us, shaking each head, And they bitterly thought cf the morrow. And th-'-n, when our heavy task was done. Jack Bryce gave the word for retiring, And, flushed with success at the battle we’d won, Each other we kept on admiring. Slowly but surely our Gen’ral got down From his cha.ger all white, famed in story ; And telegrams flashed to each city and town The news of Jack Bryce and his glory.