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xuncutspi
le xuncutcpi su’o slaka
fo le spidja canai pleji .i gauku fi le tego’i cmene lei rijno ze’u vreji April 2003
Johnson number 864, Franklin number 810.
My Lojban version
is reasonably smooth and even rhymes
(which is not that easy in Lojban),
but it doesn’t
capture enough nuances of the original to be fully satisfying.
The Robin for the Crumb Returns no syllable But long records the Lady’s name In Silver Chronicle. |