Reaching Hawaii and coming to the desolate scene of Lohiau's tragedy, he recognized a charred heap as the former bodily residence of the shivering ghost in his keeping. He broke the stony form into many pieces and then, by the magical power that was his, out of these fragments he reconstructed the body of Lohiau, imparting to it its original form and lineaments. Into this body Kane-milo-hai now introduced the soul and Lohiau lived again.
The tide of new life surging in the veins of Lohiau stirred in him emotions that found utterance in song:
I ola no au i ku'u kino wailua, I a'e'a mai e ke 'lii o Kahiki, Ke 'lii nana i a'e ke kai uli, Kai eleele, kai melemele, Kai popolo-hua mea a Kane; I ka wa i po'i ai ke Kai-a-ka-hina-lii-- Kai mu, kai lewa. Ho'opua ke ao ia Lohiau; O Lohiau--i lono oukou. Ola e; ola la; ua ola Lohiau, e! O Lohiau, ho'i, e!
I lived, but 'twas only my soul; Then came Kahiki's King and took me-- The King who sails this purple and blue, An ocean, now black, now amber, The dark mottled sea of Kane, The sea that whelmed those monarchs of old, A sea that is ghostly, foreign, strange. Lohiau flowers anew in the sunlight; It is I, Lohiau! Do you hear it? New life has come to Lohiau! To Lohiau, aye, to Lohiau!
Having come to himself, Lohiau sought his own. His chancing at Kou and his appearance at the halau in which Pele-ula was holding her kilu performance, and on the very evening of Hiiaka's arrival, was an arrangement of converging lines that reflected great credit on the god of Destiny.
Lohiau arrived at the kilu hall just in time to witness the opening of the game. Having seated himself quietly in the outskirts of the assembly, he begged a neighbor to permit him, as a favor, to conceal himself under the ample width of his kihei, exacting of him also the promise not to betray his retreat. Thus hidden, he could see without being seen. The sight of Hiiaka, the words of her song--he had heard them a score of times before--stirred within him a thousand memories. Without conscious effort of will, the words of his response sprang from his heart almost with the spontaneity of an antiphonal echo. Let us bring together the two cotyledons of this song:
O ka wai mukiki a'ala lehua o ka manu, O ka awa ili lena i ka uka o Ka-li'u, O ka manu aha'i kau-laau o Puna:-- Aia i ka laau ka awa o Puna. Mapu wale mai ana no ia'u kona aloha, Hoolana mai ana ia'u, e moe, e; A e moe no, e-e-e.