Waiho atu he poroporoaki, he maumaharatanga ki a
Alexander Dickie Smith
E tukatuka ana
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Your passing reverberates down generations
the memory of a man who gave all to a nation
Your name handed down the family lines
healing the hole of your absence in time
Each year your homeland bows in pausing
to honour the sons, brave and fallen
Lest you we forget,
beloved and missed, your sisters have wept
Long since gone your shadow remains
for giving your youth, strength and dreams
Although the passage of time takes hold,
you're etched in our hearts, some now old.
Public - Marian - Other relative - 28 Haratua 2016
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In memory and remembering.
Public - Yvonne - Other Relative - 13 Paengawhāwhā 2015