Still the plain straightforward question why a child of normally healthy parents and seemingly a healthy child and properly looked after succumbs unaccountably in early childhood (though other children of the same marriage do not) must certainly, in the poet's words, give us pause.
Alabaña galdera xalo zuzenekoak, zergatik aur bat guraso osasuntsuengandik sortua eta itxuraz aur osasuntsua eta gurasoak ondo zaindua iltzen dan aurtzaroaren asieran arrazoi argirik gabe (guraso oyetxen beste ume batzuekin gertatutakoaz bestela), eman bear digu, olerkariaren itzetan, lasaitasuna.