LOVE SONG.
" Rise up quickly, O thou Moon ! Make haste to get above me, That I may give vent to my sighing, And utter my laments. Now indeed for the first time I feel the pangs of Love. It is as if a demon or a lizard Were within me gnawing.
*Literally the sea -swept rocks v\her- the s-ea birds flock together.
Oh ye light, fleecy clouds! Fly on, fly away and carry tidings That my beloved may hear of me in her anxiety
Alas ! alas ! my very eyesight Fast fails me ; When I look at the distant headlands They quiver, and are dim." The following lovely little sonnet is quoted by the Rev 'Canon Stack in his "South Island Maories" :
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Otago Witness, Issue 2649, 21 December 1904, Page 18 (Supplement)
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121LOVE SONG. Otago Witness, Issue 2649, 21 December 1904, Page 18 (Supplement)
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