EMEitsoNl UNWRITTEN LITERATURE OF HAWAII 109 



35 E kilohi au o ka nani 



Na pua i Mauna-ala. 



He ala ona-ona kou, 



Ke pili uiai i ane'i, 



O a'u leliua ula i-luna, 

 40 Ai ouo a ua mauu. 



[Translation] 

 Song 



I spurn the thought with disdain 



Of that pool Alekoki : 



On the upland lingers the rain 



And fondly haunts Nuuanu. 

 5 Sharp was the cold, bootless 



My waiting up there. 



I thought thou wert true, 



Wert loyal to me, 



Whom thou laids't under bonds. 

 10 Take oath now and keep it : 



This body is sacred to thee. 



Bound by the word of thy mouth. 



My heart leaps up at thought 



Of the pool, pool of Kapena ; 

 15 To me it is fenced, shut off. 



The water-heads tightly sealed up. 



The fountains must be a-hoarding, 



For skies are ever down-pouring; 



The while I am lodged up aloft, 

 20 Bestowed in the cleft of a rock. 



Now, tossed by sea at Mamala, 



The wind drives wildly the surf; 



I'm soaked with the scud of the ocean, 



My body is rough with the rime. 

 25 But one stout hero and soldier. 



With heart to face such a storm. 



Wild scud the clouds. 



Hurled by the tempest, 



A tale-bearing wind, 

 30 That gossips afar. " 



The darkness and storm 



Are nothing to me. 



This way and that am I turning. 



Climbing the hill Ma'e-ma'e, 

 35 To look on thy charms, dear one. 



The fragrant buds of the mountain. 



What perfume breathes from thy body. 



Such time as to thee I come close. 



My scarlet bloom of lehua 

 40 Yields nectar sought by the birds. 



This mele is said to have been the production of Prince William 

 Lunalilo— afterward king of the Hawaiian islands — and to have been 



