The old frontier: Te Awamutu, the story of the Waipa Valley / The missionary, the soldier, the pioneer farmer, early colonization, the war in Waikato, life on the Maori border and later-day settlement

by James Cowan

(“What is yonder mountain soaring high above us?”)

And with one voice the warriors yelled, as they burst into the ferocious [[9]]stamp and weapon-thrusting of the tutu-ngarahu or peruperu dance:

’Tis Kakepuku!

’Tis Pirongia!

Ah, ’tis Kakepuku!

Ah, draw close to me,

Draw close to me,

That I may embrace thee,

That I may hold thee to my breast!

A—a—ah!