Challenge Launch the canoes! Ho Tama my son. Why stare you at the sea with the eye of Kahu the Hawk? 'Tis but the flash of the sun On the wing of Kawau the shag! But no my father! I see a great canoe Like none that came before. Call the warriors here! Run not the sons of great Maui to the bush Like children to the folds of a mother's cloak. Let the sands shout to the beat of feet And twirl the taiaha like the tail of ti-wai-waka. As Kahukura took the fish net from the fairy-folk, So shall the sons of Maui take knowledge of new things From these pale strangers. Launch the canoes! Here now is a selection from essays sent in by 5th and 6th Form students at Te Aute College, Hawke's Bay.
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Te Ao Hou, September 1968, Page 52
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