Wiliwili Hula Chant
Auwe! Pau au i ka manō nui, e! Lala-kea niho pa-kolu. Pau ka papa-ku o Lono. O ka ai ia e ka manō nui, O Niuhi maka ahi, Olapa i ke kai lipo. Ahu e! au-we! A pua ka wiliwili, A nanahu ka manō Auwe! pau ai i ka mano nui! Kai uli, kai ele, Kai popolohua o Kane. A lealea au i kaʻu hula, Pau au i ka manō nui!
Alas! I am seized by the shark, great shark! Lala-kea with triple-banked teeth. The stratum of Lono is gone, Torn up by the monster shark, Niuhi with fiery eyes, That flamed in the deep blue sea. Alas! and alas! When the flowers of the wiliwili tree, That is the time when the shark-god bites. Alas! I am seized by the huge shark! O blue sea, O dark sea, Foam-mottled sea of Kane! What pleasure I took in my dancing! Alas! now consumed by the monster shark!
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“Pan’s Syrinx was a girl indeed,
Though now she’s turned into a reed;
From that dear reed Pan’s pipe does come,
A pipe that strikes Apollo dumb;
Nor flute, nor lute, nor gittern can
So chant it, as the pipe of Pan;”
—John Lyly (1553–1606)