- `Auhea wale `oe e piano ahiahi
- Hoa `alo`alo o ke kulu aumoe?
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- Ho`olono i ka leo o ke kahuli
- Leo honehone i ka pili o ke ao
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- `O `oe a `o wau kai `ike iho
- I ke aniani o ka moku Naukilo
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- Aia i ka luna i Ma`eli`eli
- Ka nene`e a ka ua Po`aihale
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- Ha`ina `ia mai ana ka puana
- Hoa `alo`alo o ke kulu aumoe
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- Where are you, piano of the
night
- My companion in whiling away
the night
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- We have often paused to
listen
- To the sweet singing of the
land shells
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- You and I have gazed
into
- The mirror on the ship
Nautilus
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- Up on the heights of
Ma'eli'eli
- The rains of Po`aihala creep
by
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- The end of my song I
sing
- To my companion who whiles away
the night
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Source: The Echo of Our Song by Mary
Puku'i - Kuluwaimaka Papihenui Palea (1845-1937) was born in
Na`alehu, Kau district of the big island. Famed for his
powerful chanting and keen memory, he was the chief chanter
in the court of King Kalakaua. There is an extant recording
of his chanting made in 1933, by Kenneth Emory and Theodore
Kelsey; reproduced on CD "Sounds of Power in Time". He was
the younger brother of Palea, who composed this
chant to commemorate the arrival of the first piano in Hawai`i.
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