infrequent still, spaced apart as the scattered houses which warn us that we are approaching a village, they betokened to me the vast expanse of waving corn beneath the fleecy clouds, and the sight of a single poppy hoisting upon its slender rigging and holding against the breeze its scarlet ensign, over the buoy of rich black earth from which it sprang, made my heart beat as does a wayfarer's when he perceives, upon some low-lying ground, an old and broken boat which is being caulked and made seaworthy, and cries out, although he has not yet caught sight of it, "The Sea!"
bakan bai, baina, hirixka baten hurbiltasunaren aitzin-albistari diren etxe bakarti sakabanatuen gisa, lore haiek iragartzen zidaten jadanik han zela, berehala, galsoroak lehertzen direneko hedadura erraldoia, hodeiak harrotzen direnekoa, eta mitxoleta bakar bat ikusi orduko, bere unama zartaka eta bere sugar gorria haizean zirtaka, bere buia koipetsu eta beltzaren gainean, bihotza taupaka hasten zitzaidan, istinkari bat lehorrean konpontzen ari den txalupa hondatuari erreparatu eta ikusi baino lehen ere oihu egiten duen bidaiariari bezala: