The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1877-05-19

The Isles dominion to the chief belongs
lie hods the highlands and seacoasts below,
His is the darksome night, and rghisome day,
The rainy winter and hot summer time,
The lunar months OF the revolving year,
All valuable property whats'eri
All fx'd and stable property he owns,
The jet.am, and the bird that lights On land,
The thick-sheil'd broad-back'd turtle and the whales
That drift ashore and yearly shoals Of fish
Long live the chief! long may he reign supreme,
Enihron'd amidst the short gods and the long.
The chief goes forth In peace, the Islands lord,
Let music greet him and the nations dance,
The hHIa-up and down, throughout the isle,
Rising and falling Ike rough HIlo's road
Which passes on from ridge TO ridge in bounds.
Ka-u and Puma are engaged In broils.
They mutually tear each-O,hers flesh,
And, like a brood Of chickens love to peck
The one the other, acting shamefnlIyi
They gIoried in their shame-now they foird,
And bitter disappointment 1. their fate.
The shame Of Ka-i-Iua is much less
Ia Kona, Ka-i-lua's shame abates,
The siubbornness Of heart Is great,
At windy Ke-a-a, Ka-u was deaf,
And at Le-Ie-a-pik Puma false.
Plots IIo at the sands Of Ra-la-Iau,
HiiO-Pa-ku's hands are bound behind,
She is abash'd. she wanders outcasi.
In La-a's upiands. in Pa-a-o-e,
Unsettled live the people, without rights,
Their very bodies seized, uniilId their land,
Cut up in patches, stinted they abide!
The chief commands an Island sacrihcel
o Ma-Ie-Ie-ku-aIa. o PO-kii
Kai-na, Ka-hu-a-o-le, and Na-ka,
And thou, Ka-ha-e, Ka-he-k kills son,
The votive prayer to the one-father make.
The victims sIay. men are slain in fght.
FROM all the districts hither dragg'd in bonds!
Who Is the man, chief, doom'd TO die!
Hark! Ku-ka-pa-Iani, TO the cry;
The victim OF exalted rank must be
A fitting sacrifice for the whole Isle,
The chiefs young, op'nng bud is his child.
To pray, both day and night Is for the priest,
Akua's law the people must obey.
The Isle Is free from war, hence vows The chief
Puma and Kapu-e-O-kahfs waste
In saesihee; for there the air is dry,
The lard Is burnt the wells water hold,
Dark clouds gather'd and the torch is liz.
To the heayenborn chief belongs the IsIel
Who dwelIs with Ku, and is by Lono Oy'd.
The darling Of the forty thousand gods,
Sprung from Ma-Ii-u, and Ka-e-ka-e,
Concev'd and born in holiness and grace,
Zen from his birth he strove for gcdness.
still young, the sacred cocoa nut he broke,
The Iaboo'd coeo-nut with pureness alPd
The worship Of the gods, in previous days
Despis'd, & now the glory OF the Isle,
Their images, by men in reverence held,
Are set up in the temples Of the gods.
Our have hearkend TO the sound Of flight,
A sound Of Island flight it seem'd to be,
Not long ago the island people ned,
First, at the hour OF sunset, Hilo hedi
Puma, at morn; at highest noon, Ka-u.
The isle conquered in a single day,
Its fighting meu were quickly overihrown,
Tam'd by the chiefs brave host Hawaii!
As the Ko-alI's blossom cures the eye
Whose lgh: grows dark, heals the chief the land
Its ailments cease and fall its tears,
The Isle. before the conquest of the chief
Was wild and savage; nOw It has been tsm'd.
Like TO a ish caught with a hook and line,
OR tangrd in the meshes of a net
The Isle Of Hawaii has seized the bait,
In the mu-he-e's net 1t has been chokd.
The chief has spared the little fish and fry.
Like Gkl caught, their mouths with hauRG hIrd,
The common people follow him In crowds,
The rude, untrtord children Of the soil,
Rush round him like pack of hunting dogs.
From Kai-o-iena- -kamau shall the land
Escape, the bTavest soldier seeni
He Is a warrior without peer,
The hair upon his huge head stands erect.
IL bristles like Ke-o-ho-hiwa's hair,
His skin Is Of a dark red hue ali DER,
A fierce wild boar Is he, a roofing hog
e as uProoIed with his tusks the Isle,
The chief has Il with his valiant arm!
CTo be continued.) m. ID.