then, as I drew near, the sight of their topmost branches, their lightly tossing foliage, in its easy grace, its coquettish outline, its delicate fabric, over which hundreds of flowers were laid, like winged and throbbing colonies of precious insects;
eta gero, hurbildutakoan, haien hostotza leun eta motelaren ikuspegiak, haien adaburu-gandorra hautematen nuenean, hain dotoretasun errazekoa, hain ebakera irtirin eta ehundura mehekoa, zeinaren gainera erautsiak baitziren ehunka lore, bizkarroi hegaldun eta dardartizko koloniak bailiran;