TRANSLATION
The world is convulsed: the earth-plates sink
To the nether domain of Wakea;
Earth’s rooted foundations are broken;
Flame-billows lift their heads to the sky;
The ocean-caves and reefs, the peopled land
And the circle of island coast
Are whelmed in one common disaster:
The gleam of it reaches Kahiki:—
Such blush encircles the pale apple’s eye.