MAORI MEMORIES
TABLOIDS. (Recorded by J.H.S. for “Times-Age.”) Moana — I call thee ocean and across thy face My forefathers traced -their watery pace. Tai — The seas which girt New Zealand’s Isles Are fair and sweet as beauty’s smiles. Whenua — Land of my sires and my dearest joy, I love thee better now than when a boy. One One — This soil is my inheritance from those Who held it ’gainst the assault of mortal foes. Onepu— The sands of life when running low Give food for thought: where do we go? Moemo’ea— I am a dream, a common thing you know, Yet none may understand me, that I trow. Naumai — Approach, come forward, welcome too; A happy welcome we extend to you. Moemai — Sleep on fair lady happily dream And soft as fairy footfalls seem. Tangi — Weep on, and for thy lost one mourn, That loved one from thy presence borne. Kata— I love to laugh. I would be gay, Why not? Life’s but a transient day. Taku Ipo— Thou are my love, all else to me Is naught, since I can love but thee.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 December 1938, Page 9
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