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Kipapa-A Hawaiian legend


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Kipapa-A Hawaiian Legend.
Haste thee, uni, on thy way
Rapid fades the dying day r.
The chiefs ia council wait for thee
Where Waialua greets the sea,
Aud pillows ia eternal ehine,
ca coral beat the march of time
behind thee towers Leahi gray
Repellihg oceans hoaTy spray,
Where dying surf Ger white sand means.
Aud broad leaves sigh in low weird tones,
As through the bowers enamored vesper,
Woes the palm with having whisper
Before thee glooms Kipapa's glen,
The haunt Of gods aud ghosts Of men
There gut by dark deep palisades,
Ia nightly revel dance the shades
And NO to that belated wight
Who dares to pass that gorge by night!
Ere ewes curtains round thee fail
Mists Ger mountains spread a pail,
Thou must pass the dreaded wall:
Whom darkness finds in that deep dell
Meier returns the tale to tell
His fate mysterious Who may ken:
No echo comes from that deep glen =
Haste thee, On thy message wait.
Thrilling deeds-thy islands fate
Haste thee, Umi, strong and brave,
While light is On the western wavei
Though thy path be lone and dreary,
Let not Thy light footsteps weary
The sun .gloSs GA the golden way,
TO where in glory dies the day
Descending now with esshnIng blaze,
As through a mist Of roseate haze,
he glorious tints kaala's peak,
Like loves first blush on beauty's cheek,
Aud, lowering ike a rainbow shrond,
Ger the far ocean floats a cloud
Glowing round the fairy isles,
The opal water dimpled smiles
In Eya's bay Of purpling pearl,
Where waves ike rose leaves break and curl,
'GsLiDst coral sands where youth and mald
Sing as they dance beneath the shade,
Aud the bananas broad leafed bowers
Ia music wave Ger love and flowers.
Behold far Ger the gentle bay,
The golden glory fades.away,
Ger mountain peaks "a rosy glow,
Deep shadows in the wales below /;
The night breeze whispers from the hills
OF odorouS flowers aud crystal rails.
Ger the plain with weary feet,
Umi, haste thee. far and fleet
Ewes star looks Ger the purple clouds,
The dying days fanereal shrouds,
And twilight follows rs it fades,
To bear il to the realm of shades
Aud now the night her ebon pail,
Ia solemn darkness spreads DER all
Kipapa's awful glen is near,
Haste thee Oh the wings of fear!
4 black mysterious depth before thee,
\ dome of darkness arehing Ger thee,
With just enough star beams to see
The dreaded gull that yawns Ola thee
An icy tremor thrilled his frame,
rs to Kipapa's brink nc came
He called on all his gods aloud,
And closed his eyes and reverent bowed,
Then with chilled nerves and stiff ming hair.
lie entered on the winding stair,
OF dark basaltic rocks that led
Down to the regions of the dead
He trembling, cautious steps, and heard
Many a wild and whispered word,
And as he step by step descended, {
Weird voices with the whispers blended,
And ever and anon a yell,
Startled the echoes of the dell
Many a strange and muttered prayer, 5
And wailings sad of deep despair,
fierce quick quarrel-oaths of wrath, i,
Came mingled Oh that rocky path {
And smothered moans.and p~leadings low. {
Came to him from that glen below.
He reached the rock-payed glen beneath,
His heart beat quick, Che scarce could breathe,
He stood b%enumbed. all eye aud ear, 4
A cold embodiment of fear.
Then strange, wild shapes appeared to him, /
amid the shadows dim,
Gods of the internal shades stalked round, 1
Weird forEns of awe in gloom profound, 4
in a CHASTITY revei led
A pale procession of the dead. !
Within his path a warrior stood, |
Horrid and fierce, begrimmed with blood,
he threat'ning shook q CORY lance, (
And leaped in a fierce maniac dance, .,
With murderers, red reeked with crime,
all beating time, !
And thieves, and every child of Sin, {
From which arose a horrid din, c
OF wild, confused and mingled voices,
Strange blending of unearthly noises; I
And withered witches, chanting spells, :
shriekingly with treble yells,
And on him glared with frenzied gaze =
seemed his wandering thought to craze, q
The ghosts of murdered men and maids i
And babes and mothers moaning shades,
Fitted around with thrilling wall, t
sobbing many a horrid tale, g
vapors chill all noxious stole, I
A death-air Ger thai deep shsek; &
The dread kahuna's muttered prayer, .
With death-tones came on the weird air, :
Till nerveless, crushed beneath the shock, I
He sTooning, sunk against a rock. o