A beetling cliff that bounds Milo-lii,

And climbing up Makua-iki,

Crawling up was Pua, the child,

An orphan that weeps out its tale.

The writer has rescued the following fragment from the wastebasket of Hawaiian song. A lean-to of modern verse has been omitted; it was evidently added within a generation:

Mele

Malua, [250] ki’i wai ke aloha,

Hoopulu i ka liko mamane.

Uleuleu mai na manu,

Inu wai lehua o Panaewa, [251]