There Will Come Soft Rains

Sara Teasdale

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