The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1877-05-05
Hawaiian Mele Haul ka LAM. or 1.-THE
Overthrow of the Islands" by the Poet
Keaulumoku, 1716-S4).
(EseLIsH MErnreaL y~resloxl

The king has fallen Oysrthrown his realm
sad his defeat fOrsaken In his flight
A fleeing rou. was this all round the Isle
A bresthIess fleeing TO escape from death,
On ell sdes-univsrsal was the fight
The slaughter was succeeded by the night
A night Of horror, anguish, and Of death
A dark and dismal light, in which the King
Died by the roadside on the blood s1ain'd sand
His Kingly PoS'r for eer Il pass'd away
His realm unto the yictoa now belongs!
From their high state, too, fallen are the throng
or eourters. who once stood around his throne
Their naughty pride IL humbled to The dust
They have been scatter'd, erush'd, left destitute,
And Slaughtered, with their wives and tender babes.
The slain are hsap'd up into a huge pile,
Theirs Ia the house Of death, while triumph's crown
Awaits the victor from the field Of blood.
The people are subdued, their King Is dead,
Under the charge Of Hoku Is their land,
The mountain tops Of verdure are bereft-
By the hot blast redden'd, they stand on high.
A stencil arises from their wlther'd tanks,
The nights foul scent vfes with the heat Of day,
In the suns rays the mountain tops are hot,
Ger them the red clouds sweep. and burning winds.
The spirit of The land has taken flight,
The Islands soul has mounted upon high,
The pebbles Of PaIIa have appeared,
The Islands gIories lade-Kau Is dead
Kan Is slain by the victorious host.
The soul is seen exhausted Of the land,
Its very ghost, relessed-is visible,
Three ghosts.-of Puma, Hiio and Kau.
They ned, routed and conquered by the chief,
The sacrifice was ended made By Ku,
The souls are writhiOg Of The victims slain,
They have gone down TO the remorseless pit.
Great is their grief who mourn over the dead.
On every side a waiiing sound Is heard,
The mournful = aileTs SIT with heads boE'd down,
Resting their chins supported by their hands,
They riot in The agonies Of grief,
They eat the food OF wo and seek to fee,
o Kalani-makua, Death keeps watch, Z
Puma Is dead, is dead, is three times dead,
The walters choke with sobs, they gasp for breath.
They are exhausted, dying, they have drawn
Their latest breath; their s~hrieking souls have fed,
They have forsaken the SUMS light and heat,
Unto the place Of darkness and Of cold
They have departed, shivering in gloom.
To them the sun has set in wintry night.
He rises DER the Chief and his brave host.
One only chieftain now rules DER the Isle,
Long may he reign unto a ripe old age;
The Father Of the people be he styled
In after times, when his great soul departs.
sim may his mem'ry live, tho Hlo dies.
For Hro wastes. with WaEakea, too;
Thrown headlOng down the precipice of death
Dies Hilo wTithing as a twisted rope,
The head OF Hilo dies, and wall for death
The lower parts, Till Hilo sinks in gloom.
The Isle OF Hawaii falls to the Chief;
IL lies within the hollow Of his hand;
Ills right hand grasps It with q crushing grippe
thou shalt see,
The IAnd-grasper, and Kupu-apas son,
youthful chief who bravely won the Isle.
stnI marching on TO Ps-pas awkward fight
He now controls the Ise with puissant arm.
The Chief Anehe-au-lawe-aIna.
Ala-pa-uI-Ia-moku's right hand,
Hina-mo-e' double tusk is hei
Wherever he turns, death follows in his track,
he goes forth unto the fight.
With fearless hand his enemy he grasps,
And hurls him back into the jaws Of death.
On all sides routed, driven of the field,
fleeing foes their own host trample down.
The ground Is piled with corses of the slain,
Their limbs are strewn like fragments Of a rock,
The hot breath of the dying hns the air,
Upon the fetId atmosphere Il floats.
Island has been rent from end to end;
II has been toss'd, o'erthrown, turn'd upside down,
and forwards it has swsyed and swung,
A rope that Travis a swing Ia Hawaii.
rope Is puITd by soldiers of the chief,
This way and that, he gazed, amidst the fight,
While rag'd the slaughter, where no life was spar'd,
rush of foes was like 4 raging food,
Like smoking Pele's fiery lava flow,
rhe dust rose crimsond to the turbid sky;
by the dashing of the restless surf
coral rocks are cast upon the beach,
So IL heap'd up the Islands rottenness.
(To be eoniinued) E. NJ. D..
orE.-The Poet Keaulumoku was born at Naohaku, in
district OF Kohala, a part of the Island Of Hawaii which I
ed in the suite Of the Royal Hawaiian Commissioners in
1871. The Poets birth took place in l7l6- He held the
q Of Genealogist, Counsellor, Magician and Astrologist at
curt OF the kings Of Hawaii and Maui, Alapsi, Keaweopa-
nd Kanehamehanui. The Poets Father was Kauakahi-
!, who lived as Chief at Kaupo on Maui Isle. The Poet
lived with Kahahana, King Of Oahu in IVA. In 1882,
year Of king Kalaniopuu's death, who was present when
was killed, our Poet composed this famous Meie, which
rdingIy is entitled to be styled q Prophecy, in which he
old the Conquest Of the Islands Of Hawaii mel by the VIC
Kamehameha, the founder OF the United Hawaiian King
Two years later, Keaulumoku died at Hio, Hawaii, in
being then ia the sixty eighth year Of his age. His prophs-
as been sinsularly verified!