Dirges, Laments. — (Tangi, Apakura) - The Maori: Yesterday and To-day

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Dirges, Laments. — (Tangi, Apakura) - The Maori: Yesterday and To-day

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Full of striking metaphors and often of poetical conceptions of great beauty, are the lyric laments and dirges which form by far the larger portion of the Maori poetry. The mourners as they gather on the marae at the wailing-place liken the dead chief to a lofty forest-tree overthrown—kua hinga te totara—to a carved war-canoe shattered by the wa...

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1930

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James Cowan

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