A pololi a moe au, e-e!

Ku’u la pololi, a ola i kou aloha:

Ina’i pu me ka waimaka, e-e!

A e u’wé kaua, e-e!

TRANSLATION

O fellow mine on the stair-like cliff,

Where Maka-pu’u climbs to the sky,

Companioned by Cape-of-the-woods,

That fatherless bluff over yonder: