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STANZA 2

Look now, Waialua, land clothed with ocean-mist--

Its wilderness-cries heaven's ear only hears,

The wilderness-gods of Ku-kani-loko.

Within or without shall we stay, friend,

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Until we have stilled the motion?

To toss is a sign of impatience.

You hide, hiding as if from shame,

I am bashful because of your presence;

The house is yours, you've only to enter.

PAUKU 3

(Ko'i-honua)

Pakú Kea-au, ¹³⁰ lulu Wai-akea; ¹³¹

Noho i ka la'i Ioa o Hana-kahi, ¹³²

O Hilo, i olokea ¹³³ ia, i au la, e, i kai,

O Lele-iwi, ¹³⁴ o Maka-hana-loa. ¹³⁵

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Me he kaele-papa ¹³⁶ la Hilo, i lalo ka noho.

Kaele ¹³⁷ wale Hilo i ke alai ia e ka ua.

Oi ka niho o ka ua o Hilo i ka lani;

Kua-wa'a-wa'a Hilo eli 'a e ka wai;

Kai-koo, haki na nalu, ka ua o Hilo;

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Ha'i lau-wili mai ka nahele.

Nanalu, kahe waikahe o Wai-luku;

Hohonu Waiau, ¹³⁸ nalo ke poo o ka lae o Moku-pane; ¹³⁹

Wai ulaula o Wai-anue-nue; ¹⁴⁰

Ka-wowo nui i ka wai o Kolo-pule-pule; ¹⁴¹

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Halulu i ha-ku'i, ku me he uahi la

Ka puá, o ka wai ua o-aka i ka lani.

Eleele Hilo e, pano e, i ka ua;

Okakala ka hulu o Hilo i ke anu;

Pili-kau ¹⁴² mai Hilo ia ua loa.

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Pali-ku laau ka uka o Haili ¹⁴³

Ka lae ohi'a e kope-kope,

Me he aha moa la, ka pale pa laau,

Ka nahele o Pa-ie-ie, ¹⁴⁴

Ku'u po'e lehua iwaena konu o Mo-kau-lele; ¹⁴⁵

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Me ka ha'i laau i pu-kaula hala'i i ka ua.

Ke nana ia la e la'i i Hanakahi.

Oni aku Hilo, oni ku'u kai lipo-lipo,

A Lele-iwi, ku'u kai ahu mimiki a ka Malua. ¹⁴⁶

Lei kahiko, lei nalu ka poai.

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Nana Pu'u-eo ¹⁴⁷ e! makai ka iwi-honua, ¹⁴⁸ e!

Puna-hoa la, ino, ku, ku wau a Wai-akea la.

Footnote 127:(return) Olelo. To speak, to converse; here used figuratively to mean that the place is lonely, has no view of the ocean, looks only to the sky. "Looks that commerce with the sky."

Footnote 128:(return) Ku-kani-loko. A land in Waialua, Oahu, to which princesses resorted in the olden times at the time of childbirth, that their offspring might have the distinction of being an alii kapu, a chief with a tabu.

Footnote 129:(return) Hale House; a familiar euphemism of the human body.

Footnote 130:(return) Kea-au. An ahu-pua'a, small division of land, in Puna adjoining Hilo, represented as sheltering Hilo on that side.

Footnote 131:(return) Waiakea. A river in Hilo, and the land through which it flows.

Footnote 132:(return) Hana-kahi. A land on the Hamakua side of Hilo, also a king whose name was a synonym for profound peace.

Footnote 133:(return) Olo-kea. To be invited or pulled many ways at once; distracted.

Footnote 134:(return) Lele-iwi. A cape on the north side of Hilo.

Footnote 135:(return) Maka-hana-loa. A cape.

Footnote 136:(return) Kaele-papa. A large, round, hollowed board on which to pound taro in the making of poi. The poi-board was usually long and oval.

Footnote 137:(return) Kaele. In this connection the meaning is surrounded, encompassed by.

Footnote 138:(return) Waiau. The name given to the stretch of Wailuku river near its mouth.

Footnote 139:(return) Moku-pane. The cape between the mouth of the Wailuku river and the town of Hilo.

Footnote 140:(return) Wai-anue-nue. Rainbow falls and the river that makes the leap.

Footnote 141:(return) Kolo-pule-pule. Another branch of the Wailuku stream.

Footnote 142:(return) Pili-kau. To hang low, said of a cloud.

Footnote 143:(return) Haili. A region in the inland, woody, part of Hilo.

Footnote 144:(return) Pa-ieie. A well-wooded part of Hilo, once much resorted to by bird-hunters; a place celebrated in Hawaiian song.

Footnote 145:(return) Mokau-lele. A wild, woody region In the interior of Hilo.

Footnote 146:(return) Malua. Name given to a wind from a northerly or northwesterly direction on several of the islands. The full form is Malua-lua.

Footnote 147:(return) Pu'u-eo. A village in the Hilo district near Puna.

Footnote 148:(return) Iwi-honua. Literally a bone of the earth: a projecting rock or a shoal; if in the water, an object to be avoided by the surf-rider. In this connection see note e, p. 36.