MAOEILAND-MT MAOEILAND.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1304, 6 December 1911, Page 9

MAOEILAND-MT MAOEILAND.

The tyrant's heel is on thy shore, Maoriland! my Maoriland! The Prohlbs fierce are at thy door, Maoriland! my Maoriland! Stand up for Freedom a3 of yore, Strike down the Prohibs' lying lore, Acclaim thy manhood evermore, Maoriland! my Maoriland! Thoir wilt not yield to Prohlbs , power, Maoriland! my Maoriland! Awake! Arise! This fateful hour, Maoriland! my Maoriland! Away with-all the Prohibs' sour, . They would drive pleasure from thy ■ bower, And rack thee in a dismal tower,- : • Maoriland! my Maoriland!

So break thou now the tyrant's chain, Maoriland! my Maorilartd! Let Prohibs not thy country stain, Maoriland! my Maoriland! All their proposals thou'lt disdain. Drive back their hosts with might and "Maine, , , . "Sic semper tyrannls" be thy refrain, Maoriland! my Maoriland! Thy sons and daughters forth do come, , Maoriland! my Maoriland! They are not dead, nor deaf, nor dumb, Maoriland! my Maoriland! They need not bugle, fife, nor drum To aid thee spurn tee-total scum! The Prohibs fly-back, o their slum Thou'rt free again, My Maoriland-

. The tyrant's heel is off thy shore, • Maoriland! my Maoriland! •:' Tho Prohibs mean, fly from-thy door, ■ . ■ Maoriland! my Maoriland! Thou'st stood for Freedom as pf vore, Struck down the Prohibs' lying lore, Acclaim'd thy manhood thus once more, • " ' Maoriland! My Maoriland! This Patriotic Song should bo committf-d to Memory and sung by 6wy trueheartrd and loyal New, Zealander.* .