Ode to Love. 



He Mele Aloha. 



A wicket-gate is Nuuanu for the wind ; 

 A threatening blackness for 



the wind-driven rain ; 

 A stone fenced pond for the kioao ; 

 For my anae, at Leleanae. 

 ■f here above is Waipuhia 

 With my aholehole at Lanihitli, 

 Which swim in great numbers 



in the waahila rain. 

 Say, eat. 

 Shame abides with the 



masterless fishermen, 

 For the fish-baskets have 



been taken away. 

 Leaving only the coarse receptacles. 



Hana makaha^ Nuuanu na ka makani- 

 I le paulihiwa' na ka ua haao* 

 I le Inko pa pohaku no ke kioao" 

 Na ku anae" no Leleanae, 



Ai la iluna o Waipuhia." 

 Me a'u aholehole** i Lanihuli. 

 Ua. holo a nui i ka ua waahila," 

 A— i, e— a,'" 



1 lilahila" ka noho ana o ka lawaia 

 hakn ole. 



Ua ohi'a'- ka ipuholoholona a pau ; 

 I ahona i ka inaluahine hoi a. 



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'Makaha, a wicket gate or door at the mouth of fish-ponds where the water can enter but where the fish cannot 

 escape. 



'Paulihiwa, pauli, poetic for pouli ; hiwa. exceedingly black as a threatening cloud. 



°Haao, name of a kind of rain at Koolau accompanied by black darkness. 



'Loko papohaku. Nuuanu is likened to a lake fenced with a stone wall. 



'Kioao, name of the rain at Nuuanu ; poetically speaking, Nuuanu in tlie great rain is swinuning with water. 



"Anae, a kind of fish at the Leleanae place in upper Nuuanu. 



'Waipuhia, name of the waterfall on the right as seen in going up Nuuanu, lit., the water blown (1)y llie wind). 



'Aholehole, name of a flat round fish at Lanihuli, a place near the cascade. 



"Waahila, name of the rain on the tops of the mountains. 



'°A-i-e-a, chorus. 



"Hilahila, shame covers fishermen without masters. 



'"Ua ohi 'a, etc., the fish worms are all gathered; inaluahine; inalua, name of the basket fishcrnien have wherein 

 to throw various things. 

 (S44) 



