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I am grateful to my friend Laura for allowing me to share her poem as long as her name accompanies it.
Here I have captured the sense of the poem, I think, but the result is prose (though I think it captures
some of the structure of the English).  It would be a further level of art to give it the phonetic characteristics
of a poem, perhaps meter and alliteration.  The word-music of the English is probably not translatable into
any other language, but Loglan music might be achievable ;-)

The chase
-------------

A fox and a rabbit were leaping and bounding and rushing through the forest green.
The rabbit, in panic, was darting and twisting with paws like sounds on a tambourine.
The fox, very sly, 
was judging, by eye, 
how the the rabbit would fly 
when going by...
And POUNCED the rabbit precisely.
Laid it on its back, efficiently and nicely.

Said the rabbit, in fear -
curling up in despair,
in her soft eye a tear,
her nostrils blew air...

Are you going to hit me and beat me?
To hurt me and kill me and eat me?

But the fox put a paw to her trembling chest,
Waved his tail in a flamboyant, elegant gest,
And licked her a kiss at her nose.
Leaped back, turned around, was gone in the shadows.

From afar, the rabbit could hear the cry of her persecutor.
Was it a call of goodbye, or one of a suitor? 
Of which, the rabbit never knew nought.
When the fall came with frost, the fox had been shot...

/Laura, Nov. 19 - 2017

----------------------the translation without comment-------------------------------

Su vulpe, e su lepsu pia valti ze valprano ze kukrygoi vivia lo trigru vegri.
I la Lepsu, ja panki, pia rorbrogoi ze torni prano tie lo molfitpi lia lo sonda je su belramgu.
I la Vulpe, ja smibiu pia djudi tie lo menki lezo la Lepsu, ga fleti nia lepoi bangoi guo,
e JANJUA la Lepsu go cildrecni, e lelsea tie lo pripai Lai go gudckomou ce gudkao.

Ga cutse go firpa ga la Lepsu, 
nia lepo rojkovcea go spodru guo, 
e lepo nu mekcui tie leLai molro menki guo, 
e lepo zvorue tie leLai nazbyhou guo,

li ei tu fazi bloda ze rorblo mi,
efazi, surna ze mormao ze titci mi? lu.

Ibuo la Vulpe, ga setfa leVai fitpi leLai tceti ja mildysiu gui, 
e vapmuo leVai tilba dii su meVai ge selvizlei ze bilsapla rignurduo, 
e tongytco leLai nazbi dii lepo skesa Lai guo, 
e pridio valti ze trana ze sacgoi je lo cedzu.

Lepo vuvi Lai gi ga kraku ga le fatru je Lai gi ga hirti ga la Lepsu.
I ti po ga kraku ga su goztaa, ha su clutiu?
I lezo la Lepsu, suna siodja tio guo me lio ni.
I na lepo le cimfui pa kamla kii lo bisherfa gi la Vulpe, papa nu renblo.

--------------------notes during preparation of translation-------------------------------

"A fox and a rabbit were leaping and bounding and rushing through the forest green."

fox <vulpe>

rabbit <lepsu>

leap <valti>  this is really unqualified "jump".  What are the special properties of "leap"?

and "bound" is also <valti>:  difference between E leap and bound?

bound <valprano> jump-run

rush <kukygoi>

through <vivia> from here to throughout this area

forest <trigru>

green <green>

<Su vulpe, e su lepsu pia valti ze valprano ze kukrygoi vivia lo trigru vegri.>

"The rabbit, in panic, was darting and twisting with paws like sounds on a tambourine."

panic <panki>

dart <rorbrogoi>  shattered movement, little darting movements

twist <torni prano>  twisted run

paw <fitpi> (which is just "foot")  <molfitpi> soft foot for paw

belramgu <tambourine>

<I la Lepsu, ja panki, pia rorbrogoi ze torni prano tie lo molfitpi lia lo sonda je su belramgu>

"The fox, very sly, 
was judging, by eye, 
how the the rabbit would fly 
when going by..."

sly <smibiu>  secret behavior -- but is this aspect of slyness relevant?
perhaps <starycnu>  startlingly clever -- surprising rather than secretive
is <mutce>, very, actually needed?

judge  <djudi> does this word have the extent of E "judge"?

eye <menki>  note use of the mass description <lo menki> in "judge by eye"

fly <fleti>  poetically OK

go by I used <bangoi> -- see what you think in the dictionary.  Certainly
the rabbit is trying to go *way* past the fox

<I la Vulpe ja smibiu pia djudi tie lo menki lezoza la Lepsu ga fleti nia lepo bangoi guoza,>

Notice the use of the additional series of LEPO clause openers and closers to enable closing
of the lezoza...guoza clause, needed because the sentence is not actually over.

<I la Vulpe ja smibiu pia djudi tie lo menki lezo la Lepsu ga fleti nia lepoi bangoi guo,>

will work just as well with use of <poi>, short-scope <po>.  Either device works, the second
looks less strange to the 1989 Loglan eye.

"And POUNCED the rabbit precisely.
Laid it on its back, efficiently and nicely."

<e JANJUA la Lepsu go cildrecni, e lelsea tie lo pripai Lai go gudckomou ce gudkao>

This last clause I just wrote in one fell swoop, so Ill put comments after:

JANJUA is a reasonable translation of "pounce" I think -- to catch while hunting.  The latest
version of the parser DOES support all-caps as earlier versions did not.

<cildrecni> with exact precision has I think the right humorous effect of the original

<tie lo pripai> is an experiment at "lay on its back"...its not entirely clear what preposition to use in
Loglan!  I say "set level by means of the back", as it were

The word order is deliberate in the last clause...<tie lo pripai> would catch the
final <go> clause and corrupt the grammar, <Lai> does not.

I made extensive use of the odd Loglan grammar feature which allows additional qualifiers of the main
predicate to appear as final arguments in a termset;  this allows precise implementation of the word
order in the English.  I wonder about the history of this device, as I am not sure I have seen it in
any example Loglan text (I'm sure it occurs in the Visit many times, but the Visit is a novella, too large
to survey).

"nicely" is translated as <gudkao>, virtuously, which is absurd, but the intention of the
original is to be a bit ironic ;-)  There is a nice assonance between gudckomou "efficiently"  and gudkao "nicely" :-)

For convenience of parsing, the last two are presented as a single sentence:

<I la Vulpe ja smibiu nia djudi tie lo menki lezoza la Lepsu ga fleti nia lepo bangoi guoza,  e JANJUA la Lepsu go cildrecni, e lelsea tie lo pripai Lai go gudckomou ce gudkao>

"Said the rabbit, in fear -
curling up in despair,
in her soft eye a tear,
her nostrils blew air..."

<Ga cutse go firpa ga la Lepsu, nia lepo rojkovcea go spodru guo, e lepo nu mekcui tie leLai molro menki guo, e lepo zvorue tie leLai nazbyhou guo,>

<zvorue> is a new word, to breathe out, by analogy with <nenrue>, to breathe in.

The clauses "in her soft eye a tear" and "her nostrils blew air" are hard to attach:  I describe them instead as actions,
(she) wept with soft eyes, (she) breathed out from her nostrils.

"Are you going to hit me and beat me?
To hurt me and kill me and eat me?"

<li ei tu fazi bloda ze rorblo mi,
efazi, surna ze mormao ze titci mi? lu>

Note that this is in quotes <li...lu>, Loglan being precise about such things, and use of <ze>.

<Ga cutse go firpa ga la Lepsu, nia lepo rojkovcea go spodru guo, e lepo nu mekcui tie leLai molro menki guo, e lepo nurnenrue tie leLai nazbyhou guo, li ei tu fazi bloda ze rorblo mi, efazi,  surna ze mormao ze titci mi? lu>

Again, the two previous are a single sentence.

"But the fox put a paw to her trembling chest,
Waved his tail in a flamboyant, elegant gest,
And licked her a kiss at her nose.
Leaped back, turned around, was gone in the shadows."

<Ibuo la Vulpe, ga setfa leVai fitpi leLai tceti ja mildysiu gui, e vapmuo leVai tilba dii su meVai ge selvizlei ze bilsapla rignurduo, e tongytco leLai nazbi dii lepo skesa Lai guo, e pridio valti ze trana ze sacgoi je lo cedzu.>

notes:  <mildysiu> instead of <korsiu>...the rabbit herself would be the subject of <korsiu>.  "gest" is an obscure word, which I think I have translated correctly
as <rignurduo>, exploit.  Note use of my idiom <dii lepo...> for "in service of X happening..." 

"From afar, the rabbit could hear the cry of her persecutor.
Was it a call of goodbye, or one of a suitor? 
Of which, the rabbit never knew nought.
When the fall came with frost, the fox had been shot..

<Lepo vuvi Lai gi ga kraku ga le fatru je Lai gi ga hirti ga la Lepsu>

translates

"From afar, the rabbit could hear the cry of her persecutor."
This is an exercise in tortured word order...and the order of the English cannot be achieved in the Loglan
as far as I can tell.

<I ti po ga kraku ga su goztaa, ha su clutiu?>

"Was it a call of goodbye, or one of a suitor?"

The effect here is uniquely Loglandical:  literally, it is
This is the cry of one who says farewell X one who courts, where the X is a question word calling into
question what logical word is appropriate (the X expresses the question as to which if either of these statements
is true).

The current grammar does not require a pause before <ha> as before other logical connectives;  style though
suggests that this should be required.

<I Lezo la Lepsu, suna siodja tio guo me lio ni>

"Of which, the rabbit never knew nought."

Literally, the amount the rabbit knew of this, was zero

<I Na lepo le cimfui pa kamla kii lo bisherfa gi la Vulpe, papa nu renblo.>

is a quite literal translation of 

"When the fall came with frost, the fox had been shot."

---------------------------parses------------------------

I did all these parses successfully on the web page!

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Lepo vuvi Lai gi ga kraku ga le fatru je Lai gi ga hirti ga la Lepsu.

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I ti po ga kraku ga su goztaa, ha su clutiu?

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I lezo la Lepsu, suna siodja tio guo me lio ni.

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I na lepo le cimfui pa kamla kii lo bisherfa gi la Vulpe, papa nu renblo.

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