Return, return, the spirit of Te Kohi,
To greet me once again
In the shadowy land of dreams.
When you look your last on Te Awamutu
Send back your love to us,
To the lonely ones you ne’er will see again!
And as the railway bears you far away,
O backward turn your gaze;
Like the smoke that backward drifts—ah, me!
Farewell, a fond farewell!