SONNETS OF THE MAORI.
XIV.— HINE KUI-TE PO.
[Tane, God of Growth, -in his longing for offspring, . created a spouse for himself. She, when told that her husband was Ker parent, fled -to the nether world.] The errant bride of Tane darkward fled, Till Keinga's portala .cktnged behind her back, And lightnings danced -their haka down the i traok To hail the new-come ruler of the dead. Then Tane, mournful, boWed his sunny head, j His loving songs could ;uever charm ihe black Abode of Death, nor ttoo the howling pack Of hates that haunt the earth to love instead, i | But Maori Orpheus, mourning down felie breeze, Was nobler in his wos thab Grecian bard, Pound solace in his widowed loneliness, And made the feathered aiusi? of /the trees, Tosing with airy flute, across the sward, Of mating love, and all the lonely bless. — J. Athelet. November, 1904.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2647, 7 December 1904, Page 67
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