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lo mi ctino
.i finti fa la'o cy. Robert Louis Stevenson .cy
.i fanva fa la keidji
.i lo lisri cu xabju zoi .url. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/171951 .url.
ni’o lo mi cmalu ctino cu kansa mi
.i tu’a lo te pilno cu na se djuno mi
.i cy mutce mutce simsa mi tu’a lo jbini be lo stedu bei lo jamfu
.i pu tu’a mi lo nu cy plipe fi lo ckana cu se viska mi
ni'o lo nu cy banro cu traji lo ka cizra
.i lo go’i cu drata lo verba fadni lo ka masno
.i ru’i nai cy sutra banro lo ka rajycla
.i je ru’i nai lo ni cy cmalu cu banzuni lo nu cy na zasti
ni’o cy na djuno lo du’u ri’a ma kau lo verba cu kelci
.i je po'o kakne lo nu gasnu lo nu mi bebybi’o lo ro da
.i cy ru’i jibni mi .i ku’i nai tolvri pe’i
.i lo nu mi jibni lo mamta cu dunli lo nu cy jibni ku lo ka to'e jgira ce'u
ni’o ca pa cerni noi mutce clira jenoi purci lo nu lo solri cu tolfa’u zo'u
mi ckali’a je facki lo gusminra ctejau noi bartu loi matnyxrula
.i ku’i lo mi lazni cmalu ctino tai lo mulno djisipstedu
stali lo zdani .i je condi lo ka sipna
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durka commented Sep 8, 2014

Really good translation. I hope you share this, on the mriste or the wiki or something! My comments, by line number:

17: {kakne} is almost always used with {ka}, not {nu} (so that the implicit {ce'u} ends up getting plugged in as kakne1).
22: {ckali'a je facki} is a tanru here. It seems like two actions, so I'd use bridi tail connection (with gi'e, or rather jecu as you seem to be using new and improved connectives!).
22: {facki} is awkward to use for finding a material object (facki2 is supposed to be an abstraction). You can put the sumti in facki3 instead, or use {tolcri}.
22: The use of {loi} is weird to me. It refers to all the buttercups under consideration as a new entity (a mass). But the dew is on the outside of each one, distributively, not on the outside of the group. I think just {lo} is simplest, or {ro} if you want to emphasize the "every".
23: A minor complaint about tanru grouping: ((lazni cmalu) ctino) might not be what you intended. {lazni je cmalu ctino} or {lazni ke cmalu ctino} might be better.
24: {cu} is missing at the beginning.

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