162 EEV. T. POWELL ON THE 



A Resume. 



103 The rock his longed-for waves shall know : 



104 The moon, desired [with light doth glow]. 



105 The sun, like statue changeless found, 

 [Darts his refulgent beams around]. 



106 The waters in their place appear; 

 The sea too occupies its sphere ; 



107 The heaven ascends [the sky is clear]. 



108 To visit the scene Tagaloa descends ; 



109 To the West to the East his long flight he bends. 

 With longing desire to heaven he cries, 



110. And weeps for some standing-place for him to rise. 



111. Savaii, with its mountain range, sprang up ; 



112. And up sprang Fiti, and the Tongan Grroup : — 



113. Manuka was the first created land, 



114. And subsequent to her all others stand ! Hurrah ! " 



Taking this piece as a whole, it is diiBBcult to resist the con- 

 clusion that we have in it a distinct reference to the Noachian 

 deluge as well as to the original creation. The Tiiri ; the 

 descent at the Forum of Confusion ; the evident reference, in 

 lines 101 and 102, to the Tower of Babel; and other apparent 

 allusions, suggest to the mind the very counterpart of the 

 history as given by Moses. 



103. Se papa, le tai le a oo atu, 



104. Ma le Masina e solo mana'o. 



105. le La se tupua le fano. 



106. E tupu le vai, tupu le tai, 



107. E tupu le lagi. 



108. Ifo Tagaloa e asiasi, 



109. Tagi i Sisifo, tagi i Sasae, 



110. Na tutulu i le fia tula'i :— 



111. Tupu-Savaii ma Mauga loa, 



112. Tupu Fiti ma le Atu Tonga atoa ; — 



113. Manu'a na lua'i gafoa, 



114. Ae muli le Atunuu atoa ! 0!" 



Note. — I may further remark that, in listening to Mr, Boscawen's paper 

 on the Abramic migration, I was struck -with the parallelism in his paper and 

 some parts of mine ; for instance, between the first eighteen lines of the third 

 page of his paper, and the 23rd, 75th, and 76th lines of the foregoing poem. 



