On her beautiful puoka (head)
Hung her raven-black rauoko (hair)
While love filled her mokoikoi (heart)
Her alabaster kiri (skin)
Gleamed on her kapu hivi (shoulder).
And her petticoats came down to her kuri (knee).
Sweet was her aerero (tongue);
White were her even niho (teeth),
And graceful her kakari munava (waist);
Voluptuous her ngutu (lips)
And shapely were her heru (legs).
Well developed were her kiko ua-ua (muscles).
Oh, this maid of Rapa Nin (island)
Bore a rima tuhi hana (ring).
Beloved was she by a tangala (man),
Who in his little vaka (boat)
Caught a wedding gift of ika (fish)
And breathed his tale of love in her ringa (ear).