178 Transactions. 



I a Wheruru — e, i a Kiwa raia 



Nana nei te raoana, nana nei ngaru nui 



Nana nei ngaru roa 



Ka wawae i te peka Ida maranga ia 



Kia tiko wkare ra 



Ki a Honuhonu — e, ki a Kekerepo 



Ka taka inai Id muri 



Hai autu tangi, hai autu pawa ra 



Ka maraao ki te rangi, taku rangi pea 



Ka tau ki raro ra Id VVaianiu ra 



Hai to matua — e, hai a Te Hau-ori — e 



Hai a Ngapata ra 



Ma te Hiakai koe, ma Hine-te-ariki 



Ko Pikikoro pea, ko Hine-uru anc 



Ko Tama-uia — e 



Koutou ra tena, e koro ma ! — e — i. 



j * Below will be found a modern lament for the*dead, although, 

 as now is usual, it is modelled upon ancient forms — or, rather, 

 it was composed by wholesale "cribbing" from old-time songs. 

 The Maori poet of to-day seems to depend to a very great extent 

 upon plagiarism, and seems to have lost the art of composing 

 such fine pieces as the above. Observe, in the above, the pathos 

 of the opening lines of the second verse, where the composer 

 mourns the loss of his daughter : " Alas, maid, for your 

 playings in the village — running laughing to the door lii&These 

 memories remain to com time me." 



A Lament for Pare, oe Ngati-Manawa. 

 He ao mauru e rere pokai ra 

 He mihi ra nakn ki toku nei taina 

 Kua wehe i nga iwi 

 Kua wehe i taku tinana 

 Kua wehe i nga tau 

 Kua wehe i nga nohoanga. 

 Ka tahuri mai, E Pare ! 

 Kei te mihi atu koe, 

 Ka tu ai te aroha 

 Taraia i te tangi ki a Mariri 

 Ka noho taua nga paeroa kai Rangitahi 

 Kia whakarongo koe nga tai o Whirinaki 

 E ngunguru nei 

 Ehara koe i te wahine, 

 He kuru tongarerewa 

 He uri koe no Rangitihi, 

 He uri koe no Tangi-karuru, 

 He uri koe no Apa, 

 He uri koe no Tuhoe-potiki 

 Tenei, e hoa ! Te mamae 

 Kai te tau o taku ate 

 Ki a taua kura 

 Kua mahue i a koe — i." 



The Whare Potae (The House of Mourning). 

 The names " whare potae " and " whare taua " both mean 

 "house of mourning," or ;{ mourning-house " (whare, house; 



