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Upoko VIII
Nga Iwi Tawhito I Nohoia Ai E Ratou A Tamaki (Nga-Oho)

The Whanga-nui tribes have gone to war
And all their wives have gone with them
And I alone am .......... from them
To guard the houses built at Hua-rau
There is no screen to little jaws
No-one coming down from Oi-kahu
That I could push it by to O-tarara
That I o Tohi be not caught
O where, where is the water flood
That young eels long to have
But sleep ye in the north
Nor wake o son, or rise
To make your own familiar
Spirit sleep, and sleep with it
That ye may weep in woe
For parents lost and gone.

A dirge of death.