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Fornander collection of Hawaiian antiquities and folk-lore, Volume 3 (of 3)

Volume 6 / Part 2 — Ode to Love.

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A wicket-gate is Nuuanu for the wind;

A threatening blackness for the wind-driven rain;

A stone fenced pond for the kioao;

For my anae, at Leleanae.

There above is Waipuhia

With my aholehole at Lanihuli,

Which swim in great numbers in the waahila rain.

Say, eat.

Shame abides with the masterless fishermen,

For the fish-baskets have been taken away,

Leaving only the coarse receptacles.

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