Though the green landscape was blotted here and there with heaps of coal, it was green elsewhere, and there were trees to see, and there were larks singing (though it was Sunday), and there were pleasant scents in the air, and all was over-arched by a bright blue sky.
Lurralde berdea han-hemenka ikatz metaz lohituta ageri bazen ere, osterantzean berdea zen, eta baziren zuhaitzak ikusgai eta hegatxabalak kantari (nahiz eta igandea izan), baziren lurrin goxoak airean, eta dena zegoen zeru urdin-aire eta distirakor baten uztaipean.