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Sport 26: Autumn 2001
XIV This is Our Thought
XIV This is Our Thought
1
We heard that Taranaki was destroyed.
Afterwards came news about Ngatiruanui;
here we were perplexed.
We had not heard there was fighting
until the soldiers had gone aboard the ships;
then we heard.
Now this offence was from the Pakeha:
hence, we said,
we are strangers to one another.
This is our thought;
we are divided,
you on one side,
we on the other.
2
This is another thing, about the roads.
The roads are not simply for fetching food
from a man's farm;
throughout the island, it is this
that creates fear.
At Taranaki, the road being there,
your guns reached the pa.
3
I have not heard that the roads
are stopped up;
the great road of the Waikato
is not stopped, the road
of the Waipa river
is not stopped. The Pakehas
and the Maoris
are travelling upon them;
the road of the Union Jack
alone is closed.