Ka uahi o ka mahu ha’a-lele’a i uka;
Ka hala, ka lehua, lu ia i kai.
Ha’aha’a Puna, ki’eki’e Kilauea:
Ko Puna kuahiwi mau no ke ahi.
O Puna, aina aloha!
Aloha-ino Puna, e moe’a nei,
Ka aina i ka ulu o ka makani!
The language of this mele is marked by a certain mannerism that can hardly be described as either parallelism or as antithesis, though it approaches now one and now the other. It is as if each picture could not be accomplished save by representing its grouping from more than one point of view.
TRANSLATION
Kilauea breaks forth: smoke blurs the day;