Down, down, far down, I will go.”
Hi-ku heard what she sang. But he did not look back or make any answer. He kept on his way up the mountain-side. Ka-we-lu was left behind, entangled in the vines and the branches. Afterwards he was lost to her sight, and her voice could not reach him.
He went up to the peak of the mountain, and he entered his parents’ house. And still he was angry. [[111]]But after a night his anger went from him. And then he thought of the young Princess of Kona, with her deep eyes and her youth that was like the gush of a spring. More and more her image came before him, and he looked upon it with love.
Now one day, when he was again making his way up the mountain-side, a song about himself and Ka-we-lu came into his mind. It was a song that was for Lo-lu-pe, the god who brings together friends who have been lost to each other.
“Hi-ku is climbing the mountain-ridge,
Climbing the mountain-ridge.
The branch hangs straggling down;
Its blossoms, flung off by Lo-lu-pe, lie on the ground.
Give me, too, a flower, O Lo-lu-pe,
That I may restore my wreath!”