This spoil and rape of the wildwood, This plucking of wilderness maile— Collect of garlands, Laka, for you. Hiiaka, the prophet, heals our diseases. 5 Enter, possess, inspire your altar; Heed our prayer, ’tis for life; Our petition to you is for life. _Chorus:_ Give us life, save from transgression! [Footnote 15: _Hoo-ulu_. This word has a considerable range of meaning, well illustrated in this mele. In its simplest form, _ulu_, it means to grow, to become strong. Joined with the causative _hoo_, as here, it takes on the spiritual meaning of causing to prosper, of inspiring. The word “collect,” used in the translation, has been chosen to express the double sense of gathering the garlands and of devoting them to the goddess as a religious offering. In the fourth verse this word, _hooulu_, is used in the sense of to heal. Compare note _c_.] [Footnote 16: _Hiiaka_. The youngest sister of Pele, often spoken of as _Hiiaka-i-ka-poli-o-Pele_, Hiiaka-of-the-bosom-of-Pele. Why she should be spoken of as capable of healing diseases is not at all clear.] [Footnote 17: _Ulu_. Here we have the word _ulu_ in its simple, uncombined form, meaning to enter into and inspire.] The wildwoods of Hawaii furnished in great abundance and variety small poles for the framework of the kuahu, the altar, the holy place of the halau, and sweet-scented leaves and flowers suitable for its decoration. A spirit of fitness, however, limited choice among these to certain species that were deemed acceptable to the goddess because they were reckoned as among her favorite forms of metamorphosis. To go outside this ordained and traditional range would have been an offense, a sacrilege. This critical spirit would have looked with the greatest disfavor on the practice that in modern times has crept in, of bedecking the dancers with garlands of roses, pinks, jessamine, and other nonindigenous flowers, as being utterly repugnant to the traditional spirit of the hula.