int-o'-woods,
A cliff that stands fatherless, even as
Sheer stands the pali of Ula-mao--
And thus... you are lost!

This is but a fragment of the song which Hiiaka pours out in
her efforts to calm the fateful storm which she saw piling up
along the horizon. The situation was tragic. Hiiaka, daring
fate, defying the dragons and monsters of the primeval world,
had made the journey to Kauai, had snatched away from death
the life of Lohiau and with incredible self-denial was
escorting the rare youth to the arms of her sister, whose
jealousy she knew to be quick as the lightning, her vengeance
hot as the breath of the volcano, and now she saw this
featherhead, with monstrous ingratitude, dallying with fate,
calling down upon the whole party the doom she alone could
appreciate, all for the smile of a siren whose charms
attracted him for the moment; but, worst of all, her heart
condemned her as a traitress--she loved him.

Hiiaka held the trick-card and she won; by her miraculous
power she kept the game in her own hands and foiled the hopes
of the lovers.

_Mele_

Ula ka lani ia Kanaloa,[472]
Ula ma'ema'e ke ahi a ke A'e-loa.[473]
Pohina iluna i ke ao makani,
Naue pu no i ka ilikai o Makahana-loa,[474]
5 Makemake i ka ua lihau.[475]
Aohe hana i koe a Ka-wai-loa;[476]
Noho a ka li'u-la i ke kula.
I kula oe no ka makemake, a hiki iho,
I hoa hula no ka la le'ale'a,
10 I noho pu me ka uahi pohina.[477]
[Page 242] Hina oe i ka Naulu,[478] noho pu me ka Inuwai.[479]
Akahi no a pumehana ka hale, ua hiki oe:
Ma'ema'e ka luna i Haupu.[480]
Upu ka makemake e ike ia Ka-ala.
15 He ala ka makemake e ike ia Lihu'e;[481]
Ku'u uka ia noho ia Halemano.[482]
Maanei oe, pale oe, pale au,
Hana ne'e ke kikala i ka ha'i keiki.
Hai'na ka manao--noho i Waimea,
20 Hoonu'u pu i ka i'a ku o ka aina.[483]
E kala oe a kala au a kala ia Ku, Ahuena.[484]

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