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Make real again the hours that are flown. 



Turn hither, mine own, let's drench us with love — 



Just for one night ! 



The unehivalroiis indiscretion of the youth in publishing the seciei 

 of his amour elicited from Kamehameha only the sarcastic remark. 

 '' Couldn't he eat his food and keep his mouth shut?" The lady her- 

 self took the same view of his action. There was no evasion in her 

 reply ; her only reproach Avas for his childishness in blabbing. 



Mele 



Kahikalafhi, kaha " ka La ma ke kua o Lehua ; 

 Lulana iho la ka pihe a ke Akua ; '' 

 Ea mai ka T^nulau ^ o Halali'i ; 

 Lawe ke Koolau-wahine*^ i ka hoa la, lilo; 

 5 Hao ka Mikioi ^ i ke kai o Lehna : 



Puwa-i'a na hoa-makani f mai lalo, e-e-e. a. 

 I hoonalonalo i ke aloha, pe'e ma-loko; 

 Ha'i ka wai-maka hanini ; 

 I ike aku no i ka uwe ana iho; 

 10 Pela wale no ka hoa kamalii, e-e, a ! 



[Translation] 



The sun-furrow gleams at the back of Lehua : 

 The King's had his fill of scandal and chaff; 

 The wind-god empties his lungs with a laugh; 

 And the Mikioi tosses the sea at I^ehua, 

 5 As the trade-wind wafts his friend on her way — 

 A congress of airs that ruffles the bay. 

 Hide love 'neath a mask — that's all I would ask. 

 To spill but a tear makes our love-tale appear ; 

 He pours out his woe ; I've seen it, I know ; 

 10 That's the way with a boy-friend, heigh-ho ! 



' The art of translating from the Hawaiian into the English tongue 

 consists largely in a fitting substitution of generic for specific terms. 

 The Hawaiian, for instance, had at command scores of specific names 

 for the same wind, or for the local modifications that were inflicted 



" The picture of the sun declining, kaha, to the west, its reflected light-track, kala 

 kalaihi. furrowing the ocean with glory, may be tal^en to be figurative of the loved 

 and beautiful woman, Kalola. speeding on her westward canoe-flight. 



"Akua. Literally a god, must stand for the king. 



<■ Unulau. A special name for the trade-wind. 



" Koolauwahinc. Likewise another name for the trade-wind, here represented as carry- 

 ing off the (man's) companion. 



« Mikioi. An impetuous, gusty wind is represented as lashing the ocean at I>ehua, tlius 

 picturing the emotional stir attending KaloIa:'s departure. 



^ The words Puwa-i'a na hoa niakani, which literally mean that the congress of winds. 

 na hoa makani, have stirred up a commotion, even as a school of fish agitate the surface 

 of the ocean, ijuivu-i'a, refer to the scandal caused by Ka'i-ama's conduct. 



