Arahura

The arahura It ebbs and it flows It changes in ways Only rivers can know But when I was young I studied those ways I kept them with me Through all of my days Te rauparaha Had the greenest of eyes He came a long way For a shimmering prize And God only knows What he needed stones for But you didn't mind For you've a million more And when I look down From the mountain above I know I am bound To the river I love And in a million years I'll be a rock on that hill But in a million more I don't know that I will