The brook, of which the banks were clothed with dense masses of a gigantic species of maidenhair fern interspersed with feathery tufts of wild asparagus, sung merrily at our side, the soft air murmured through the leaves of the silver trees, doves cooed around, and bright-winged birds flashed like living gems from bough to bough.
haize eztiak marmar egiten zuen zilarrezko zuhaitzen hostoen artetik; usoak urrumaka genituen inguruan, eta hego distiratsuetako txoriak harribitxi bizidunak bailiren ari ziren adar batetik bestera jauzika.