Kei te hoa, Mātene, nei ka noho i te rā o te waru, i te pō roa o te matiti, ka pātai ki a au anō, 'Auē e Koro, Mātene, kei hea rā koe ka ngaro whakaaitu nei?' (HM 1/1995:1). / My distinguished friend, Mātene, here I am sitting bereft in the long nights of summer, asking myself, 'Oh my elder, Mātene, where have you disappeared to so disastrously?'

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