Volume 6 / Part 2 — Song to Hiiaka.
Reading edition
The high surf-pit breaks upon the shore;
It bursts on high, breaking pointedly by the storm.
With deafening noise the lehua of Kaniahiku roars,
The woman who consumes the lehua of Kaumu.
The rocks bubble till they hurt, 5.
By the seizures of the fire sported with by the puulena wind.
The island is drawn up; the land is flattened down;
The sky is lowered; the mountain is thrown into surf;
The ocean broken up, Kilauea overflows.
Say, Papalauahi becomes a cave. 10.
Pele pierces her body; the hail,
The rain that cometh from heaven.
The earth travels in an earthquake,
The hailstones fall with confusing noise;
Then Puna rises up on high. 15.
Low is the growing pillars of cloud.
The upland of Keahialaka is like a sandy colored blossom,
Girdled by the fire of Waiwelawela
Of the crater, eh
Woe betide those that near the crater dwell. 20.