Sleep Sweetly, Hawai`i

On the heaving of the ocean
Like a loving mother's breast
Lie the Islands of Hawai`i
As an infant in its rest.

Sleep sweetly, Hawai`i, so fearless and free
Fair daughter of ocean, the child of the sea.


P.H. Dodge, 1895

 

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