(i)
Pride and Prejudice
legal injustice,
racist
greed for land,
failure to understand
difference

(ii)
Where is the promise of partnership?
Kei whea ngā taonga?
scattered
laid to waste
by Acts of Settlement
for betterment
to them, only them;
armed with steel, to steal and to plunder,
Ko te pāhua.

(iii)
Indemnity granted,
legally bonded
with continuance for further resistance;
For God and for Queen we sing.

(iv)
Two manu descend from up high, singing
fulfilment of prophecy, rangimārie,
a Zion awaits through non-violence,
no submission,
no permission beseechingly asked for.
The assertion of mana and tino rangatiratanga

(v)
And Tātarakihi
the sound of resistance,
a chattering call of youthful insistence,
And the reconciliation of difference.