Na lehua i Wai-a’ama, la, lilo,
Lilo a’u opala lehua
I kai o Pi’i-honua, la;
Mai Po’i-honua no a Pi’i-lani.
TRANSLATION
It sobs in the rain;
It moans in the rushing tide.
Gone is my grove of lehuas—
My rubbish grove, that stood
By the pilfering waters—flown,