O na kupuna koikoi o Keoua, o ka Lani Kui-apo-iwa.
[Translation.]
Song
CANTO V
(To be recited in bombastic style, or, it may be, distinctly)
Big with child is the Princess Ku;
The whole island suffers her whimsies;
The pangs of labor are on her;
Labor that stains the land with blood,
Blood-clots of the heavenly born,