Malua,[250] ki’i wai ke aloha, Hoopulu i ka liko mamane. Uleuleu mai na manu, Inu wai lehua o Panaewa,[251] 5 E walea ana i ke onaona, Ke one wali o Ohele. [Page 115] Hele mai nei kou aloha A lalawe i ko’u nui kino, Au i hookohu ai, 10 E kuko i ka manao. Kuhi no paha oe no Hopoe[252] Nei lehua au i ka hana ohi ai. [Footnote 247: Kawaihoa. The southern point of Niihau, which is to the west of Kauai, the evident standpoint of the poet, and therefore “below” Kauai.] [Footnote 248: _Milo-lii_. A valley on the northwestern angle of Kauai, a precipitous region, in which travel from one point to another by land is almost impossible.] [Footnote 249: _Makua-iki_. Literally “little father,” a name given to an overhanging pali, where was provided a hanging ladder to make travel possible. The series of palis in this region comes to an end at Milo-lii.] [Footnote 250: The _Malua_ was a wind, often so dry that it sucked up the moisture from the land and destroyed the tender vegetation.] [Footnote 251: Panaewa was a woodland region much talked of in poetry and song.] [Footnote 252: _Hopoe_ was a beautiful young woman, a friend of Hiiaka, and was persecuted by Pele owing to jealousy. One of the forms in which she as a divinity showed herself was as a lehua tree in full bloom.] [Translation.] _Song_ Malua, fetch water of love, Give drink to this mamane bud. The birds, they are singing ecstatic, Sipping Panaewa’s nectared lehua, 5 Beside themselves with the fragrance Exhaled from the garden Ohele. Your love comes to me a tornado; It has rapt away my whole body, The heart you once sealed as your own, 10 There planted the seed of desire. Thought you ’twas the tree of Hopoe, This tree, whose bloom you would pluck?