There Will Come Soft Rains

Sara Teasdale

lojbo	glico	glico gi'e te fanva fo le lojbo
ni'o ni'o bau le lojbo	English original	Back translation from Lojban
ba milxe bo carvi	There Will Come Soft Rains	There will be mild rains
.i finti fa la .saras.tizdeil.	Sara Teasdale	Sara Teasdale
.i fanva fa la lalxu .i milxe cnegau fa la gleki	English original	la gleki
.i ba milxe bo carvi .i panci lo dertu	There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,	There will be mild rains. It smells of the ground.
.i le cipni ba sutra bo vofli co certu	And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;	Birds will skillfully rapidly fly.
.i le banfi ba sanga .i melbi bo vanci	And frogs in the pools singing at night,	The frogs will sing. It is a beautiful evening.
.i le flaume bo tricu ba blabi se manci	And wild plum trees in tremulous white,	The plum-trees will be white-marvelous.
.i le gunse ba dasni le fagri bo pimlu	Robins will wear their feathery fire	Geese will wear fire-feathers.
gi'e siclu fe le jai se gleki co simlu	Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;	and whistle seemingly happy melodies.
.i se slabu le jamna fa no cmalu danlu	And not one will know of the war, not one	No small animal will know the warriors.
.i no stuzi le xarci ba su'o roi canlu	Will care at last when it is done.	No place will ever be taken by the weapons.
.i no cipni ba xanka fa no jdari tricu	Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree	No bird will worry, neither any strong tree
fe le fanmo be mi'a noi no da ba skicu	If mankind perished utterly;	about the end of us who no one will tell about.
.i la vensa ba cikna ke viska le cmana	And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,	Spring will awakeningly see the mountains.
.i te mintu le jalge .i vy. ri na zgana	Would scarcely know that we were gone.	The outcome is equal. Spring doesn't observe it.