Heaven’s blotted out, the whole sky darkened;
Hoali’i’s cliffs are shadowed with gloom.
Now bellows the thunder of Winter;
Ku-lani-ha-ko’i’s banks are broken;
Down pours a pitiless deluge of rain;
There’s rumble and groan of the earthquake,
The reverberant roar of thunder,
The roof-stripping swoop of the tempest.
Tearing the thatch over Ele-uä,
Tearing the thatch over Ele-ao.