LAMENT OF GEORGE TAKARANGI.
For his younger brother, William Patene, who died at Kaiwhaiki, Whanganui, on the 29th of December, 1874. (Translation versified by George Wilson.) "When the Northern -winds are blowing They remind me of my sorrow, Then I feel a lonely longing To pursue my loved, my lost one, Whilst my unavailing tears are flowing. As a vessel quickly rounding Kiritohi's cliff in sunlight Catches on her gleaming paddles An instant flash, a glint of sunbeam, So he's gone—ah! who can follow! In my darksome whare's silence I will lay me down desponding. Wiremu for aye is resting At Hui-te-Rang'iora, Whence the mist which settling downwards, May be seen in clearest beauty As it falls round Kaiwhaiki's Ever sad and silent tomb-homes.
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Waka Maori, Volume 11, Issue 5, 9 March 1875, Page 57
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124LAMENT OF GEORGE TAKARANGI. Waka Maori, Volume 11, Issue 5, 9 March 1875, Page 57
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