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: