Ina ia oe ke lei ’a mai la.

[Translation.]

Anklet-Song

Fragrant the grasses of high. Kane-hoa.

Bind on the anklets, bind!

Bind with finger deft as the wind

That cools the air of this bower.

Lehua bloom pales at my flower,

O sweetheart of mine,

Bud that I’d pluck and wear in my wreath,