The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-05-02
KAPIOLANI.

Written for the Hawaiian Gsxette).
Far away where the Pacific with its
supplemented waves
Rolls in snowy crested pillows over shin
ing coral caves;
And In shimmering ripples danceth Ger
belt Of golden sand,
That lies between the coral and the
flaming palm-fringed strand.
Underneath the shadows OF grim Mount
Hualalai,
Thrusting up his hoary summit in the
azure OF the sky,
Kailua stands forsaken, but half . CEN
turv hath d Iwn,
Since q wild and savage people bowed
them down to wood and stone.
But half q century hath flown since, in
clouds up to the skies,
Rose the smoke from bloody affairs, and
the agonlsing cries,
OF the b. ,und and helpless victims that,
by savage priests desire,
Were offered up in sacrifice to appease
the stone gods ire;
Or to please the goddess Pele, who above
all rel. ned supreme,
Who held her awful court mid Kilaues's
fiery stream;
Who from the throbbing mountains
heart sent her lurid rivers down.
And deep, deep in flaming torrents did
her luckless victims drvwn.
But messengers OF peace were sent unto
them from far AWAY
A white-winged vessel dropped her sails
ami anchored in the bay;
And the pale-facpd strangers land with
their Bibles in tn. ir hands,
In obedience to the mandate, 20 ye into
all the lands,
And unto every people carry ye, my mes
sages of peace;
Till the hezih-n gods be broken, the
idol worship cease.
They were met by painted warriors, each
with war club and with spear;
But the men OF God before them stood
without = trace OF fear.
Though for years and years they labored
in this vineyard OF the Lord.
For years and years they preached to this
savage race His word;
There Was stIll the bleeding affairs and
the wild, unf.oly fexsts,
And blind and erring people, still en-
shaved by relies priests
Till Kapiolani brxved each kahuna's
rage and ire
And drfied the priests of Lono, and de-
fed the priests of FIRE;
And for the love she bore to Him who
suffered for Der sake,
She faced the goddess Pele at Kilauea's
fiery lake.
With few and fearful followers she set
out from her abode,
To tramp for many q weary mile DER Q
Wild and unknown road,
Over billowy wastes of lava, through
wastes OF yellow sand,
Underneath a boiling sun, by no cooling
breez-s famed;
Where the bot air shone and quivered
like a sea Of molten glass,
And lizards dzrted to and fro mid the
rank and sundried grass
Only wastes of blackened ashes, not q
streamlet cuol and sweet
Wherein to battle her burning brow, or
lave her bleeding feet.
She kept on her weary march without
thought of food or rest,
Till she saw the crimson vapors over
MAuna Loa's crest;
And in q green oasis in charred and
blackened land,
The much needed rest was taken by
herself and little band,
Ere the morning sun had risen-while
the stars 10 heaven still shore
She was marching to the dreaded lake
where Pele kept her throne;
And Pelian priertess met ber-threa:-
ened her with Vengeance dire,
II she dared but once 10 look into the
living sea OF fire.
Nothing daunted she went onward till
she reached the crater's rim.
There Vas triump h in her eye, and not
quIver in a limb;
Her voice was loud and ringing, and
looking downward to the fame,
That hisse,i and reared below her feet,
in the Great Jehovah's name
She dtfe'i the goddess Pele-tiod had
kindled NJ thir fire,
And Jehovsh's power would save her
from the bTu, Of Prle's ire,
Jehovah il NV bod she cried, mo
more victims shall he slain,
For your sltar- shall be l-v-iIed all
your heather gods are vain
In God alone put my tru-t, for your
CODE I'm not AFRAID
And turning to her followers cried-'my
frlenhs, be not dism@yed,
Fear no wrath o. priest or priestese, tear
the bloody affairs down,
Leave no stone or temple standing-let
the idols be o'erthrown,
And thank the Lord Jehovah, who,
from his shining throne shove,
Has sent to US his message, full of peace,
and full OF love;
Though the priests may threaten VEN
eeance, fear ye not their woes or
pains
For their power g forever broken, and
the King Jehovah reigns.'
CHARLES n. EwAaT.
DalbeattIe, Scotland, March, 1891.