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tenpo pimeja sewi o! mun ali li suno mute. tenpo ni la jan Jesu li kama lon. tan pali ike la jan ali li ike pilin. taso ona li kama. pona li kama tawa jan. pilin jan li kama pona mute tan ni: tenpo suno li kama sin! o kama! o kama anpa! o kute e kalama sewi! a! tenpo ni li sewi. jan Jesu li tawa ni....

Here's the link to the recording (no, I don't have glamorous recording equimpent):

https://soundcloud.com/christa-hansberry/sina-suno-mi

Lojban is left-grouping by default; it just has modifiers first instead of last.

I'll try to remember that "ante toki"; "language type-of change", I guess, which does make sense.

Yeah, I thought about that for quite a while, but couldn't get anything that remotely fit the tune. Unlike my Esperanto translation, where that part was rendered "Min feliĉigas Dum pluva hor'" (me make-happy during a rainy hour) which has the added bonus of rhyming with "neniam prenu ...

And it's even singable - sort of... sina suno mi. a! sina suno mi. sina lon la mi pilin pona. sina sona ala e olin suli mi. o weka ala e suno mi! The melodic tweaks necessary to make this work are too numerous to fully specify here; I'll link to a recording when I have one. Other than that, the only...