He ala[12] hele, he ala muku,
He ki[13] ho’iho’i kanawai;
He kai[14] oki’a kanawai;
He kua[15] a kanawai —
No Pele, no ko’u Akua, la!
TRANSLATION
There’s turmoil and heaving of strata
In the land She claimed for her own.
Kahiki was land at the dawn of time,