Aohe makua; uwé ho’i e!
TRANSLATION
Will the orphan now hang his head
And weep like a motherless child?
His mother is dead; let him weep!
This two-edged blade cuts both lovers at one stroke—the youth in its ironical allusion to tears, the woman in the sly suggestion of motherhood, she being in fact old enough to hold that relation to the young man.
The forfeit paid by Lohiau after his defeat was a dance, which he did with inimitable grace and aplomb to the accompaniment of a spirited song, his costume being the customary paü of the hula:
Ku’u hoa i ka ili hau o Maná,
I kula’i ’na e ka wai o Hina;