lOMEKSON] UNWRITTEN LTTERATTTRE OF HAWAII 165 



PoU Anuanu 



1. Aloha wale oe, 

 Poll auuauu ; 

 Maeele an 



I ke aim, e. 



2. He anu e ka ua, 

 He anu e ka wai, 

 Li'a kuu ill 



I ke anu, e. 



3. Ina palaa, 

 Ooe a owau 

 Ka 1 pu-kuku'i, 

 I ke anu, e. 



He who would translate this love-lyric for the ear as well as for the 

 mind finds himself handicapped by the limitations of our English 

 speech— its scant supply of those orotund vowel sounds which flow 

 forth with their full freight of breath in such words as a-U-ha. p6-li, 

 and <i-nv-d-7iu. These vocables belong to the very genius of the 

 Hawaiian tongue. 



[Translation] 



Cold Breast 



1. Love fain compels to greet thee, 

 Breast so cold, so cold. 

 Chilled, benumbed am I 



With the pinching cold. 



2. How bitter cold the rainfall. 

 Bitter cold the stream. 

 Body all a-shiver, 



From the pinching cold. 



3. Pray, what think you? 

 What if you and I 

 Should our arms enfold. 

 Just to keeji off the coldV 



The song next given, dating from a period only a few years subse- 

 quent, is of the same class and general character as Poli Anuanu. 

 Both words and music are peculiarly Hawaiian, though one may 

 easily detect the foreign influence that presided over the shaping of 

 the melody. 



