The following is given, not for its poetical value and
significance, but rather as an example of a song which the
trained Hawaiian singer delights to roll out with an unctuous
gusto that bids defiance to all description:
XI—Song, Ka Mawae
By permission of the Hawaiian News Co., of Honolulu
Arranged by H. BERGER
[Music:]
NOTE.—The music to which this hula song is set was produced
by a member of the Hawaiian Band, Mr. Solomon A. Hiram, and
arranged by Capt. H. Berger, to whom the author is indebted
for permission to use it.
_Ka Mawae_
A e ho’i ke aloha i ka mawae,
I ke Kawelu-holu, Papi’ohúli.[325]
Huli mai kou alo, ua anu wau,
Ua pulu i ka ua, malule o-luna.
[Footnote 325: _Papi’o-huli_. A slope in the western
valley-side at the head of Nuuanu, where the tall grass
(_kawelu_) waves (_holu_) in the wind.]
[Page 168]
[Translation.]
_The Refuge_
Return, O love, to the refuge,
The wind-tossed covert of Papi’ohúli.
Face now to my face; I’m smitten with cold,
Soaked with the rain and benumbed.
XII—Like no a Like
By permission of the Hawaiian News Co. (Ltd.)
Arranged by H. BERGER
[Music]
_Like no a Like_
1. Ua like no a like
Me ka ua kani-lehua;
Me he la e i mai ana,
Aia ilaila ke aloha.
_Chorus_:
Ooe no ka’u i upu ai,
Ku’u lei hiki ahiahi,
O ke kani o na manu,
I na hora o ke aumoe.
2. Maanei mai kaua,
He welina pa’a i ka piko,
A nau no wau i imi mai,
A loaa i ke aheahe a ka makani.
_Chorus_.
[Page 169]
[Translation.]
_Resemblance_
1. When the rain drums loud on the leaf,
It makes me think of my love;
It whispers into my ear,
Your love, your love—she is near.
_Chorus_:
Thou art the end of my longing,
The crown of evening’s delight,
When I hear the cock blithe crowing,
In the middle watch of the night.
2. This way is the path for thee and me,
A welcome warm at the end.
I waited long for thy coming,
And found thee in waft of the breeze.
_Chorus_.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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