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,