ORIGINAL POETRY.
THE CHIEF'S VISION.
His tribes have perished from the earth, their footprints passed away; ] The grand old Rangatira breathes his A latest sigh to-day; ; . V ™ The last of all his dusky race, awaiting 1 death's Btern call, '• He turns his proud but mournful face in silence to the wall. Alone! What thoughts afe passing through thedyingchieftain'! brain? Doeß he recall the murdVoUs' fight, the flaming torch again? Or does his waning memory trace through intervening years, Tiie downfall of 4iis haidy race, their wrongs, their sighs, their tears 1 Perhaps' he, with his dying breath, the grasping race vevilcß, That robbed him of his birthright in his fair native isles; Whose baneful mess of pottage drow his people from his side'; And caused his nearest kith and kin la anger to divide. Ah, no !-His thoughts are drifting back to happier themeß than theso; Far back upon Lifo'B rugged track his Maori home he sees; Before tho stranger's ruthless hand had swept the forest fair, ■ ,-,-j And sent its swarthy children forth to seek a home elsewhere. J..5.5."
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2206, 29 January 1886, Page 2
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180ORIGINAL POETRY. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2206, 29 January 1886, Page 2
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