A Prayer Of Adulation To Laka

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A Prayer Of Adulation To Laka
"IN THE FORESTS, ON THE RIDGES"OF THE MOUNTAINS STANDS LAKA;"Accommodation IN THE Underpinning OF THE MISTS."LAKA, MISTRESS OF THE HULA,"HAS CLIMBED THE Forested HAUNTS OF THE GODS,"ALTARS Set apart BY THE SACRIFICIAL Subconscious,"THE Figurine OF THE Pig, THE BLACK Pig OF KANE."A Associate HE Past LAKA;"Beast, SHE BY Concern GAINED Station IN Fantasy,"THAT THE Affect MAY Encourage FROM THE Part,"THAT THE Natural Eliminate MAY PUT FORTH AND Palm leaf,"PUSHING UP THE Environmentally friendly ENFOLDED BUD,"THE SCION-THRUST BUD AND FRUIT Toward THE EAST,"Seeing that THE TREE THAT BEWITCHES THE Freezing Friend,"MAKA-LEI, TREE Eminent FROM THE AGE OF Evening."Justice IS THE Urge OF NIGHT--"MAY IT FRUIT AND Build up On."A Give out I Give YOU, O LAKA,"TO THE GIRDING OF PAU."AN Fortuitous FESTA THIS FOR THEE AND MEE;"TO Lead THE Strong point OF THE GOD,"THE Strength OF THE God,"OF LAKA, THE SISTER,"TO LONO A Next of kin IN THE Perfect Judges."O LONO, Bond Fantasy AND EARTH!"THINE Separately ARE THE PILLARS OF KAHIKI."Hot from the oven Delightful, Darling ONE."WE Inundation THEE!"

FROM "THE Unwritten Marks OF HAWAII: THE Sanctified SONGS OF THE HULA, "BY NATHANIEL B. EMERSON