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The Saga of Tainui

Haere i runga i te rangimarie me te aroha,
Waiho te riri me te kino i muri.
(Depart in peace and goodwill,
Leave war and strife behind you.)

Hoki Kupe (Kupe never returns).

Kua kotia te tai tapu ki Hawaiki.
(There is no recrossing the tide to Hawaiki,
or
The Rubicon has been crossed.)

He rangai maomao
Ka taka ki tua o Nukutaurua
E kore a muri e hokia.
(A shoal of maomao fish
That has once passed Nukutaurua
Will never return.)