[Footnote 240: _Mokihana_. The name of a region on the flank of Wai-aleale, also a plant that grows there, whose berry is fragrant and is used in making wreaths.] [Footnote 241: _Ka-ula_. A small rocky island visible from Kauai.] [Footnote 242: _Malua-kele_. A wind.] [Footnote 243: _Halau_. The shed or house which sheltered the canoe, _wa’a_, which latter, as we have seen, was often used figuratively to mean the human body, especially the body of a woman. _Kamau ke ea i ka halau_ might be translated “persistent the breath from her body.” “There’s kames o’ hinny ’tween my luve’s lips.”] [Footnote 244: _Wawae-noho_. Literally the foot that abides; it is the name of a place. Here it is to be understood as meaning constancy. It is an instance in which the concrete stands for the abstract.] [Footnote 245: _Hauna_. An odor. In this connection it means the odor that hangs about a human habitation. The hidden allusion, it is needless to say, is to sexual attractiveness.] [Page 106] [Translation.] _Song_ Wai-aleale stands haughty and cold, Her lehua bloom, fog-soaked, droops pensive; The thorn-fringe set about swampy Ai-po is A feather that flaunts in spite of the pinching frost. 5 Her herbage is pelted, stung by the rain; Bruised all her petals, and moaning in cold Mokihana’s sun, his wat’ry beams. I have acted in good faith and honor, My complaint is only to you— 10 A matter that touches my life. Best watch within and toward Ka-ula; Question each breeze, note every rumor, Even the whisper of Malua-kele. Search high and search low, unobservant. 15 There is life in the breath from her body, Fond caress by a hand not inconstant. Like fissured groves of coral Stand the ragged clumps of lehua. Many the houses, easy the life. 20 You have your portion—of love; Humanity smells at the door. Aye, indeed. The imagery of this poem is peculiarly obscure and the meaning difficult of translation. The allusions are so local and special that their meaning does not carry to a distance.