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342 The mothers call on Kuhe as they give Their child to sleep. O early slumber Of the heavenly company thou art indeed! O Ku, O Lono, O Kane, they are yours The evening hours (subdue All murmurs now, speech, voice Inviolate let evening be).

It is evening; it is hallowed for being that: Let tumult die within us all: Tapu! The spies of heaven, the stars return: Tapu! And peaceful heaven covers peaceful earth.