E Ō Anei, ʻAʻole Paha, ʻO Ia Nō ka Nīnau / To Be or Not to Be, That Is the Question
Transcription
E ō anei, ʻaʻole paha, ʻo ia nō ka nīnau
Inā hāʻupuʻupu ka hano i ka ʻeha wale ʻana mai
I nā maʻa me nā pua pana o ka pōʻino kupu wale
A e aho paha ke kaua ʻana aku i ka ʻōkaikai o ka pōpilikia
A ma ia hana kūʻēʻē e hoʻōki aku ai. E make, e moe—
ʻOle hou mai—a ma ke ʻano he moe e hiki ai ke hoʻopau
I ke kokoni ʻeha me ke kini puoho hoʻohikilele
E hekau mau mai ana i ke kino ola—he hopena nō ia
E makahehi wale ai. E make, e moe—
E hiʻolani iho, a moe ʻuhane paha. ʻAe, he hihia naʻe,
ʻOiai ma ia moe make, ʻo ka haili hea ke ʻōʻili mai,
I ka hoʻokuʻukuʻu ʻē ʻia aku o nei ola kanaka,
ʻO ia ka mea e nalu ai. ʻO ka mahalo kahi mea
E paʻuhia ai ia ʻano ola lōʻihi.
ʻO wai ke ahonui i ka hahau a hoʻokae ʻana a ke au,
Ka hewa a ka ʻaʻe hewa, ka ʻaʻahuā a ka hoʻokano,
Ke koni ʻeha o ke aloha laumaʻewa, ka lohi o ka pono
Ka pākīkē o ke kūlana a me ka hōʻole ʻino ʻana
E lilo aʻe ai ka pono ahonui o ka mea pono ʻole,
ʻOiai he hiki nō kona ke hoʻopakele iā ia iho,
Me ke kui houhou i ka lima? ʻO wai ke hāʻawe pūʻolo
Me ka ʻuhū a me ka hou kahe i ke ola luhi wale
ʻOiai ʻo ka makaʻu i kahi mea o muli aku o ka make,
Ia wahi akāka ʻole nona nā palena e hoʻi ʻole mai ai
Ka mea hele, he mea e pūhili ai ka manaʻo,
E koi mai ana i ke ahonui e ʻauamo i ka pilikia i loaʻa
Ma kahi o ka lele ʻana aku i ka mea ʻike ʻole ʻia?
Pēlā kākou e hōhē ai i ka lunaʻikehala,
A pēlā e loli ai ke ʻano mau o ka manaʻo ʻonipaʻa
E hele a maʻi iho me ka uhi hākeakea o ka noʻonoʻo,
A ʻo nā hana ʻeʻeu nui a koʻikoʻi nō
Ma nei noʻonoʻo e hūhewa ai ke au o ua mau mea lā
A lilo loa aʻela ke kapa ʻana aku he hana. —Puakea 2016
Citation:
Shakespeare, William. “E Ō Anei, ʻAʻole Paha, ʻO Ia Nō ka Nīnau” [To Be or Not to Be, That Is the Question]. Translated by M. Puakea Nogelmeier. Jan. 1, 2016. Institute of Hawaiian Language Research and Translation, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, 2018.
Original article retrieved from Kawaihuelani Center for Hawaiian Language.
Translation
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And, by opposing, end them. To die, to sleep—
No more—and by a sleep to say we end
The heartache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to—’tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep—
To sleep, perchance to dream. Ay, there’s the rub,
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause. There’s the respect
That makes calamity of so long life.
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
Th’ oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law’s delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of th’ unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovered country from whose bourn
No traveler returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pitch and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry
And lose the name of action. —Hoʻonāueueihe 1600
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