Her voice, frail and high as a boy's, was heard intoning from a distant choir the first words of a woman which pierce the gloom and clamour of the first chanting of the passion:
Haren ahots mutikoarena bezain hauskor eta zolia koru urrun batetik entzun zen nekaldiko lehen kantu triste eta deiadartiaz gaindi emakumearen lehen hitzak abesten: