THE ROUT OF THE MAHIKI
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Emerson, Nathaniel Bright
A ia Mahiki ke uwá la no, e!
TRANSLATION
Scattered through Puna, scattered through Puna,
Is the rout of the vagrant imps:
They swarm in the dwellings of men;
The houses are lousy with demons—
Wai-mea’s myriads of godlings,
Thy four hundred thousand, Maná.
Wai-mea thrills with the snarl of witch-gods:
Night’s shadows brood over Mahiki;
The uproar keeps on in Mahiki.
Source notes
1Maka’u-kiu, afeared-o-a-spy. ↑
2Ma-hi-ki (mahiti, mawhiti), to leap, to skip, to spring up suddenly. The Maori Comp. Dict. E. Tregear. ↑