Ke kupa hoolono kai, o Pohaku-o-Kaua’i,[21] e,

A noho ana o Pohaku o Kaua’i i kai, e!

TRANSLATION

Ka-ena, salty and barren,

Now throbs with the blaze of the sun;

The rocks are consumed by the heat,

Dappled and changed in their color:

The sand-holes sink, the coral forms heaps,

Urged by the breath of Malua—

That fellow of mine from Koolau: