Thou art Hilo, Hilo, flood-gate of heaven. Hilo has power to wring out the rain. Let Hilo turn here and turn there; Hilo’s kept from employ, somber with rain; 5 Pili-keko roars with full stream; The feathers of Hilo bristle with cold, And her hail-stones smite on the sand. She lies without motion, with upturned face, The fire-places pillowed with ashes; 10 The bullets of rain are slapping the land, Pitiless rain turmoiling Pai-kaka. So, indeed. [Page 105] 2 In Puna was I, in Ku-ki’i, in Ha’e-ha’e, I saw a wraith of lehua, a burning bush, A fire-tree beneath the lava plate. Magnificent Puna, fertile from rain, 5 At all times weaving its mantle. Aye Puna’s a land of splendor, Proudly bedight with palm and lehua; Beauteous above, but horrid below, And miry the plain of Mau-kele. 10 Apua upturned, plod on to Mau-kele. _Mele_ Kau lilua i ke anu Wai-aleale; He maka halalo ka lehua makanoe;[237] He lihilihi kuku ia no Aipo,[238] e; O ka hulu a’a ia o Hau-a-iliki;[239] 5 Ua pehi ’a e ka ua a éha ka nahele, Maui ka pua, uwe éha i ke anu, I ke kukuna la-wai o Mokihana.[240] Ua hana ia aku ka pono a ua pololei; Ua hai ’na ia aku no ia oe; 10 O ke ola no ia. O kia’i loko, kia’i Ka-ula,[241] Nana i ka makani, hoolono ka leo, Ka halulu o ka Malua-kele;[242] Kiei, halo i Maka-ike-ole. 15 Kamau ke ea i ka halau[243] a ola; He kula lima ia no Wawae-noho,[244] Me he puko’a hakahaka la i Waahila Ka momoku a ka unu-lehua o Lehua. A lehulehu ka hale pono ka noho ana, 20 Loaa kou haawina—o ke aloha, Ke hauna[245] mai nei ka puka o ka hale. Ea! [Footnote 237: _Lehua makanoe_. The lehua trees that grow on the top of Wai-aleale, the mountain mass of Kauai, are of peculiar form, low, stunted, and so furzy as to be almost thorny, _kuku_, as mentioned in the next line.] [Footnote 238: _Ai-po_. A swamp that occupies the summit basin of the mountain, in and about which the thorny lehua trees above mentioned stand as a fringe.] [Footnote 239: _Hau-a-iliki_. A word made up of _hau_, dew or frost, and _iliki_, to smite. The _a_ is merely a connective.]