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’Afio mo e Kaha’u ’o Tonga (Her Majesty and the Future of Tonga)
Fa'u Ta'anga mo Fakafasi 'e Nau Saimone Liliu Lea 'a Eric B. Shumway
Composed by Nau Saimone and Translated by Eric B. Shumway
’Afio mo e Kaha’u ’o Tonga
1 Pupunga lose teunga e tafengavai ’o taimi,
2 Tauhia he ta’au ’o e ’ofa fakapalovitenisi.
3 Polepole ai pe motu ’oku lau ’e he himi,
4 Kei toka e monu ki he palataisi’o e Pasifiki.
5 Tu’unga’anga ia ’ete humataviki
6 He ko e laukau’anga ’o Ha’a Tongafisi.
7 Malimali loto ai fine ’o e Halapaini,
8 Tafe sino’ivai e kalonikali e ’otu feleniti.
9 Kuo fihi e kakala he tofi’a siueli,
10 Taufa ’ene ngangatu fakamo’oni’i ’o e palomesi.
11 ’Oku fotu ’o hange ko e takanga (sola sisitemi),
12 Pe ngaahi huelo e maama lahi e ’univeesi;
13 ’Oku ’ikai malava hano fakatataua
14 ’A e koloa fungani ’a Tonga ma’a e kaha’u na.
15 Pea mo’oni e lau ’a e ’ipiseli ’a Paula:
16 He ’ikai fakamavae ’a e ’ofa pea mo ki taua.
Tau:
17 Tué tué tué tué ki he la'a tupu’a,
18 Tué tué tué tué ki he huelo koula.
19 Kai ’utungaki ai pe me’avale e fonua,
20 Hakailangitau ’o ’ikai tukua.
Her Majesty and the Future of Tonga
1. Cluster of roses decorating the stream of time,
2. Nurtured in the wake of providential love.
3. On this proud land, praised by the hymn
4. Sweet fortune still rests--the paradise of the Pacific.
5. This is the substance of my worshipful praise,
6. The source of all beauty for the Ha’a Tongafisi.
7. The woman of Halapaini continually smiles in her heart,
8. In her flows deep the history and culture of the Friendly Is- lands.
9. Fragrant abundance, enshrining this jeweled estate,
10. Is wafted abroad, an emblem of the covenant.
11. It now appears as a mighty solar system,
12. Or the rays of the universe’s largest light.
13. No apt comparison can capture
14. The crowning treasure of Tonga’s future.
15. How true Paul’s words in his epistle:
16. We will never be separated from God’s love.
Refrain:
17. Hail, hail, hail, hail to the eternal sun, (i.e. the Queen)
18. Hail, hail, hail, hail to the golden beam. (i.e. the Royal Family)
19. For even the lowliest people of the land eat freely
20. They dance in an ecstasy which ceases never.
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Fakafeta'i e fatu moe liliu....malie lahi. Kau 'eni he kolomu manako pea 'oua 'e tuku hono toutou 'omai he 'oku fakaleleloto.