[Translation.]
Song
Engulfed ill heaven’s abyss
Is the cry of the famished god.
I sank to the ground from faintness,
My day of utter starvation;
Was rescued, revived, by your love:
Ours a contest of tears sympathetic—
Let us pour out together our tears.
The Hawaiian thought it not undignified to express sympathy (aloha-ino) with tears.