EMEKSON] UNWRITTEN LITERATURE OE HAWAII 81 



5 He ko'i ula ana a maku'i i ka ala, 



Hoomau ku-wa mahii ia, 



Ka maka o ke abi alii e a nei. 



Ko inai lie keiki koko a ka Lani, 



Ke keiki he nuuliiwa ia Hitu-kolo, 

 10 O ke keiki hiapo anueuue, iloko o ka uianawa, 



O hi ka wai uiii o ka uunhiwa a Ke-opu-o-laui, 



O ua alii lani alewa-lewa nei, 



E u-lele, e ku nei ma ka lani ; 



O ka Lani o ua mu'o-lau o Liliha, 

 15 Ka hakiua, ka pu'e, ka maka o Kuhi-hewa a Lola — 



Kalola, nana ke keiki laha-laha ; 



Ua kela, he kela ka pakela 



O na pahi'a loa o ka pu likoliko i ka lani 



O kakoo hulu mann o o-ulu, 

 20 O ka hulu o-ku'i lele i ka lani, 



O hiapo o ka mauu leina a Pokahi, 



O Ka-lani-opu'u hou o ka moku, 



O na kupuua koikoi o Keoua, o ka Lani Kui-apo-iwa. 



[Translation] 



Song 



CANTO V 



(To be recited in bombastic style, or, it may be, distinctly) 



Big with child is the Princess Ku ; 



The whole island suffers her whimsies ; 



The pangs of labor are on her : 



Labor that stains the land with blood, 

 5 Blood-clots of the heavenly born, 



To preserve and guard the royal line, 



The spark of king-fire now glowing : 



A child is he of heavenly stock, . 



Like the darling of Hitu-kolo, 

 10 Fii'St womb-fruit born to love's rainbow. 



A bath for this child of heaven's breast. 



This mystical royal offspring, 



Who ranks with the heavenly peers. 



This tender bud of Liliha, 

 15 This atom, this parcel, this flame. 



In the line Kuhi-hewa of Lola — 



Ka-lola, who mothered a babe prodigious. 



For glory and splendor renowned, 



A scion most comely from heaven, 

 20 The finest down of the new-grown plume, 



From bird whose moult floats to heaven, 



Prime of the soaring birds of Pokahi, 



The prince, heaven-flower of the island. 



Ancestral sire of Ke-oua, 

 25 And of King Kui-apo-iwa. 



25352— Bull. 38—09 6 



