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I have another poem
full of Hawaiian words,

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and I'm getting
quite nervous myself

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at the thought of
reading these words.

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And I want to explain what
they are, because they're

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all either animals or birds
or vegetables or trees that

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are becoming extinct.

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And there's one little problem
with this poem, which you'll

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see, but I won't say
anything about it

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till I've finished
reading the poem.

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Well, at least one
little problem.

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Tonight the oohaoo, dark-rumped,
cries like a dog at the cliff.

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After her day out at
sea, she comes home,

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and with cries like a bark,
seeks her burrows in the cliff.

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Goodbye, oohaoo.

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And full grown olapa
tree, one sees you old.

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One sees no little trees.

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Goodbye, olapa tree.

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God be w'ye, [HAWAIIN LANGUAGE].

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God be with you,
[HAWAIIN LANGUAGE]..

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God be also with you, manoa,
last ones of your kind.

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In you all, God goodbyes
itself little by little.

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One by one, God gathers
up its best companions,

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and at a certain time,
goes away with you.

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The problem, the
one I had in mind,

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was the use of the possessive
its with reference to God.

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I don't believe in God the
Father, nor did her seem right.

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So I put in its, and yet
something's wrong there too.

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Is it possible that the word it
can be restored to sacredness?

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[LAUGHTER]

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Rather than by applying it to
God, God reduced to thingness.

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The romance
languages, of course,

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don't have to even
consider that,

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since the possessive has to
agree with the thing possessed.

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But so English presents this
to me interesting question.

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