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Password--Song

Steep stands the mountain in calm,

Profile of Wai-ale-ale at Wai-lua.

Gone the stream-spanning plank of Wai-kini,

Filched away by Nou-nou;

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Shut off the view of the hill Ipu-ha'a,

And the upland expanse of Ka-pa'a.

Give voice and make answer.

Dead silence--no voice in reply.

In later, in historic times, this visitor, whom we have kept long waiting at the door, might have voiced his appeal in the passionate words of this comparatively modern song:

Footnote 59:(return) Wai-ale-ale (Leaping-water). The central mountain-mass of Kauai.

Mele Kahea ⁶⁰

Ka uka holo-kia ahi-manu o La'a, ⁶¹

I po-ele i ka uahi, noe ka nahele,

Nohe-nohea i ka makani luhau-pua.

He pua oni ke kanaka--

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He mea laha ole la oe.

Mai kaua e hea nei;

E hea i ke kanaka e komo maloko,

B hanai ai a hewa ⁶² ka wa'ha.

Eia no ka uku la, o ka wa'a. ⁶³