256 BUREAU OF AMEKICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 38 



15 Koe a kau me ka manao iloko. 



Ke apo wale la no i ke one, 



I ka uwe wale iho no i Mo'o-nio'o-iki," e ! 



He ike moolelo na ke kuhl wale, 



Aole ma ka waha ma-i o kanaka. 

 20 Hewa, pono ai la hoi au, e ka hoa ; 



Nou ka ke aloha, 



I lua-ai-ele * ai i o, i anei ; 



Fa kuewa i ke ala me ka wai-mal<a. 



Aohe wa, ua uku i kou hale — 

 25 Hewa au, e ! 



[Translation] 

 Sony 



The wind-beaten stream of Wailiia 



Is tossed into waves from the sea ; 



Salt-drenched are the leaves of the hau. 



The stalks of the taro all rotted — 

 5 'Twas the crop of Maka'u-kiu. 



The flowers of kukui are a telltale, 



A messenger sped by the gale 



To warn the canoe to depart. 



Pray you depart ! 

 10 Hot-foot, she's off with her pack — 



A bundle red-stained with the mud — 



And ghost-swift she breasts Malu-aka. 



Quest follows like smoke — lost is lier companion; 



Fierce the wind plucks at the leaves, 

 15 Grabs — by mistake — her burden, the man. 



Despairing, she falls to the earth. 



And, hugging the hillock of sand. 



Sobs out her soul on the beach Mo-mo-iki. 



A tale this wrung from my heart, 

 20 Not told by the tongue of man. 



Wrong! yet right, was I. my friend; 



My love after all was for you, 



While I lived a vagabond life there and here. 



Sowing my vagrom tear* in all roads — 

 25 Prompt my payment of debt to your house — 



Yes, truly, I'm wrong ! 



" Mo'o-rno'o-iki. A land at Wailiia, Kauai. 



^ Lua-ui-elc. To carry about witli one a sorrow. 



