Haere - Mai.

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Unlike many patriotic songs which circulated in sheet music form, this version of Haere-Mai presents a very restrained use of type and image befitting a homage to the fallen of World War I and a salute to those who returned. The composer and lyricist, the Rev. James Millar Thomson, was a resident of Island Bay in Wellington and Robert Parker who scored the music for him was a distinguished organist, composer and choir director at St. Paul's Cathedral in Wellington. Note the lack of macrons in the text; only recently was this linguistic identifier integrated into digital typeface design and was never part of the metal type scene in New Zealand.