Kia Hora Te Marino | May Peace Be Widespread

Finale from the 2019 Churchlands Senior High School Graduation Ceremony. Kia Hora Te Marino, Music by Christopher Tin, Maori proverbs adapted by Jerome Kavanagh and Ben Mullon.
Performed by the graduating Year 12 music students.
Filmed on a Sony HandyCam from the back of the Riverside Theatre, so sound and vision not the same as for our regular concert performances.

Translation from LyricWiki:
Kia Hora Te Marino / May Peace Be Widespread

May peace be widespread,
may the sea glisten like greenstone,
and may the shimmer of light guide you
May peace be widespread,
be widespread
now and forever more.

Said of human life.
The sun rises to the zenith, then declines.

Pull out the centre,
Pull out the centre of the flax plant,
Where will the bellbird sing?
I ask myself
What is the greatest thing in the world?
My answer is,
(All) the people, the people, the people!

The first breath we take.
Bind the entire flesh of our group
and bring it into force like the axe.
Gather, gather and go forward!

Widespread