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The Challenge Papa te whatitiri i runga i te rangi! Hikuhiku te uira! Gone are those hot days when the battle-field Jogged with the shouts of the haka, and the click and thrust of the taiaha. Gone are the kuia, And the koroheke with his tokotoko His ancestry he recites. My ancestry … Whano! Whano! Haere mai te toki! Haumi EEE! Hui EEE! Taiki EEE! Now— only I am left To wonder what was theirs. I too can recite ancestry I too can haka I too can sit and wonder. Sit and wonder Loud crashes the thunder in the sky! The lightning flashes! John Barrett

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Te Ao Hou, December 1968, Page 52

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The Challenge Te Ao Hou, December 1968, Page 52

The Challenge Te Ao Hou, December 1968, Page 52

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