Down tumble the sun-kissing clouds;
Down sinks the blood-red eye of Heaven
And big-bellied clouds that loom at sea.
Pele heaves in sight at Nihoa—
That limpet stuck to Lehua’s base.
From famed Kaua’i to Oahu;
Thence on to Mother Hina’s isle;
To Lana’i of Kanaloa;
To Mani and, last, to Hawaii:
This the route of the Woman—Pele.