HE TANGI MO KOTIRA KUIA.
Na tona papa, na Himiona Huriwaka. (I mate ki Papatupu, Whanganui, Maehe 7, 1874.) (He mea whakarite kite ahua ote waiata Pakeha e Teoti H. Wirihana, Pakeha.) E moe e hine, ka ara mai ki runga Kia whakahau koe i te takiritanga o te ata, e, i. E kore to reo e ngaro i au I te tira takainga, koi ai o taina, e, i. Ma to potiki koe e pikau atu Ki roto hau Raro kapua, e, i. Koe wliare taka mate, no Tawhaki, No Hine-i-te-Muri-Whakaroto, e, i. Me takai korua kite whakakopa ote rangi, Hei kalxu mo korua, e, i. ° Tenei ano ra nga ki i waiho e o tupuna, Ko te itoito ko Puliao rangi, e, i. Hei tohu mo korua, me haere ki raro ra, Kia huaina koe he matamata ariki, na, e, i. Note.—ln the foregoing, and in similar poems from the Maori, there is a difficulty attending the resetting of the sentiment in our richer and more diffuse mode of expression. " The Native ideas are few, but they are singularly subtle in their nature ; they are very severe and bald, mere half-touches, yet always evincing the head and heart of a master. They contain the very essence of poetry ; they are without ornament; they are almost in a state of absolute nudity. The attempt at clothing them may only serve the undesirable end of obscuring their beauties, and making more vague their primitive longings after the simple and the true. —Geo. H. Wilsox. °
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Waka Maori, Volume 10, Issue 18, 8 September 1874, Page 231
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254HE TANGI MO KOTIRA KUIA. Waka Maori, Volume 10, Issue 18, 8 September 1874, Page 231
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