HE TANGI, MO MOKOWERA, I MATE IA KI WHAREKURA, KEI OHIWA
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HE TANGI, MO MOKOWERA, I MATE IA KI WHAREKURA, KEI OHIWA.*
Haere ra, e Moko,
Te ata o te taua.
Te ata a Tumatauhinai,
Te inati o te Peritao,
Ekore hoki koe, e nuia iho, i enei nga raro,
Te ra o te waru, e,
Ka kohi au, i aku mahara,
Ki atu ana au, “ e haehae matariki,”
Ki ana mai, ia, “ waiho i Wharekura,
I te ururua,”
Kia ngata ai to puku, e hao nei, ki te riri.
* This Tangi was one of the sources from which Te Rangilineata obtained the materials for the preceding tangi for Te Rauparaha. It is the custom of the natives to compose their poetry rather by combining materials drawn from ancient poems, than by inventing original matter. An apparently recent poem is thus sometimes really of very ancient origin.
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