Hoe ’a mai ka wa’a i a’e aku au.
TRANSLATION
We meet at Ewa’s leaf-shaped lagoon, friends;
Let us sit, if you will, on this lea
And bedeck us with wreaths of Kauno’a,
Of akuli-kuli and wili-wili.
My soul went astray in this solitude;
It lost the track for once, in spite of luck,
As I came down the road to Kau-pe’a.
No nightmare dream was that which tricked my soul.