EMEUsu.N] UNWRITTEN LITERATUEE OF HAWAII 259 



10 Where cloud-forms rest on Ocean's breast. 

 Uplifting their forms at Nihoa, 

 This side the base of Lehua ; 

 There is the water of Kane. 



One question I put to you : 

 15 Where is the water of Kane? 



Yonder on mountain peak, 



On the ridges steep, 



In the valleys deep. 



Where the rivers sweep; 

 20 There is the water of Kane. 



This question I ask of you : 

 Where, pray, is the water of Kane? 

 Yonder, at sea, on the ocean, 

 In the driving rain. 

 -7> In the heavenly bow, 



In the piled-up mist-wraith. 

 In the blood-red rainfall, 

 In the ghost-pale cloud-form ; 

 There is the water of Kane. 



30 One question I put to you : 



Where, where is the water of Kane? 



Up on high is the water of Kane, 



In the heavenly blue, 



In the black piled cloud, 

 35 In the black-black cloud. 



In the black-mottled sacred cloud of the gods; 



There is the water of Kane. 



One question I ask of you : 



Where flows the water of Kane? 

 40 Deep in the ground, in the gushing spring, 



In the ducts of Kane and Loa, 



A well-spring of water, to quaff, 



A water of magic power — 



The water of life ! 

 45 Life ! O give us this life ! 



