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U» A k;i hale ku"i. 



Ku'i oe a louo Kabiki-uui : 



Hoolei ia ilniia o Kaua-loa, 



Ka lihilihi pua o ka inakemake. 



Mao ole ke Koolau i ka lihilihi. 

 IT) He lihi kuleana ia no Puna. 



ko'u inmi no ia o ka ike niaka. 

 Ache uiakamalva o ka hale, iia hele oe: 

 rs'awai la an e hook i pa 



1 koia mahaoi ana niai nei o ka loa? 

 20 He makeniake no r.ii e ike niaka ; 



I hookalu no no. le'a ke kannu. 



Ka hana niao ole a ke anu. 



He aim uiawaho. a he hu'i n>a-loko. 



A ilaila lana la. la'i pono iho. 

 25 Ua iK>no oe o kaua, na alu ka nioena : 



Ka hana man a ka Inu-\Aai; 



Mao ole i ka nui kino. 



Kn'n kino keia niauna ia ha'i. 



E Ku. e hoolei la I 

 30 A ua noa ! 



[Translation] 

 Song 



I am smitten with spear of Kane: 



Mine eyes with longing scan Koolau : 



Behold the love-omen hang o'er the sea. 



I dive and come np. dive and come up: 

 5 Thus I I'each my goal Wai-ko-loa. 



Tlie width of plain is a tritle 



To the joyful spirit of Kane. 



Aye. a husband, and patron is he 



To the dance of the bended knee. 

 10 In the hall of the stamping feet. 



Stamp, till the ei^ho reaches Kahiki: 



Still pluck you a \\-reath by the way 



'I\> crown your fondest ambition ; 



A wreath not marred by the salt wind 

 in That plays with the skirts of Puna. 



I long to look eye into eye. 



Friendless tlie house, you away : 



Pray who will receive, who weU'oine. 



This guest uninvited from far? 

 L*o I long for one (.soul-deep) gaze, 



Due night of precious comnumion : 



Such a tlower wilts not in the cold — 



Cold without, a tumult within. 



What bliss, if we two were together ! 

 2r> You are the blest of us twain : 



The mat bends under your form. 



The thirsty wind, it still rages, 



