Re: TRANS: I to my perils, part 2

Yoon Ha Lee wrote:

> (Hmm, don't seem to be any other visible A.E. Housman fans on this list.
> Oh well.

Not so!

ca le nu mi nanca li repa kei lo prije cusku di'e
At the event-of I am-in-years number 21, a wise-one expresses this:

.i ko dunda loi fepni be li vei mu .e reno .e repa sicni
You! give mass-of shillings of the numbers (5 & 20 & 21) coins

.iku'i ko na dunda le do pevrisna
But you! false! give the your "heart"

.i ko dunda loi tercakyjme .e loi xu'ejme

You! give mass-of shell-gems and mass-of red-gems

.iku'i ko na prami be da gasnu

But you! false! love of something agent


.i mi nanca be li repa kei le nu cusku fi mi cu to'epli
I am-in-years number 21 the event-of expressing to me is-useless


I think "'Tis mute, the word they went to hear on high Dodona

mountain" is especially cool too.


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