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Burial of Sir John McKenzie.
Son and brother at his right hand All the way, all the way!And O for them and O for her Who stayed within, the dowie day!Son and brother and near of kinGo out with the Chief who never comes in!And of all who loved him far and near’Twas the nearest most that held him dear; And his kin went mourning all the way.
The clan went on with the pipes before All the way, all the way ;A wider clan than ever he knew Followed him home that dowie day.And who were they of the wider clan?—The landless man and the No Man’s man,The man that lacked and the man unlearned,The man that lived but as he earned ; And the clan went mourning all the way.
The heart of New Zealand went beside All the way, all the way,To the resting-place of her Highland Chief: Much she thought she could not say.He found her a land of many domains,Maiden forest and fallow plains:He left her a land of many homes,—The pearl of the world, where the sea-wind roams And New Zealand went mourning all the way!

Jessie Mackay.

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