The use of the pebbles after the manner of castanets, the division of the dancers into two sets, their advance and retreat toward and away from each other are all suggestive of the Spanish bolero or fandango. The resemblance went deeper than the surface. The prime motive of the song, the mele, also is the same, love in its different phases even to its most frenzied manifestations. _Mele_ Pa au i ka ihe a Kane;[326] Nana ka maka ia Koolau;[327] Kau ka opua[327] ma ka moana. Lu’u a e-a, lu’u a e-a,[329] 5 Hiki i Wai-ko-loa. Aole loa ke kula I ka pai-lani a Kane.[330] Ke kane[331] ia no hoi ia Ka hula pe-pe’e 10 A ka hale ku’i. Ku’i oe a lono Kahiki-nui; Hoolei ia iluna o Kaua-loa, Ka lihilihi pua o ka makemake. Mao ole ke Koolau i ka lihilihi. 13 He lihi kuleana ia no Puna. O ko’u puni no ia o ka ike maka. Aohe makamaka o ka hale, ua hele oe; Nawai la au e hookipa I keia mahaoi ana mai nei o ka loa? 20 He makemake no au e ike maka; I hookahi no po, le’a ke kaunu, Ka hana mao ole a ke anu. He anu mawaho, a he hu’i ma-loko. A ilaila laua la, la’i pono iho. 25 Ua pono oe o kaua, ua alu ka moena; Ka hana mau a ka Inu-wai; Mao ole i ka nui kino. Ku’u kino keia mauna ia ha’i. E Ku, e hoolei la! 30 A ua noa! [Footnote 327: _Ihe a Kane_. The spear of Kane. What else can this he than that old enemy to man’s peace and comfort, love, passion?] [Footnote 328: _Koolau_. The name applied to the weather side of an island; the direction in which one would naturally turn first to judge of the weather.] [Footnote 329: _Opua_. A bunch of clouds; a cloud-omen; a heavenly phenomenon; a portent. In this case it probably means a lover. The present translation, is founded on this view.] [Footnote 330: _Lu’u a e-a_. To dive and then come up to take breath, as one does in swimming out to sea against the incoming breakers, or as one might do in escaping from a pursuer, or in avoiding detection, after the manner of a loon.] [Footnote 331: _A Kane_ and _Ke kane_. Instances of word-repetition, previously mentioned as a fashion much used in Hawaiian poetry. See instances also of the same figure in lines 13 and 14 and in lines 16 and 17.] [Page 184] [Translation.]