III.

A people believing that Peelè the Goddess would wallow in fiery riot and revel

On Kilauea,

Dance in a fountain of flame with her devils or shake with her thunders and shatter her island,

Rolling her anger

Thro’ blasted valley and flowing forest in blood-red cataracts down to the sea!

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IV.

Long as the lava-light

Glares from the lava-lake,