He had seen hovering above his head the fiend so easy to mistake for an angel, the Devil with rainbow wings, who scatters rubies, and aims his golden shafts at palace fronts, who invests women with purple, and thrones with a glory that dazzles the eyes of fools till they forget the simple origins of royal dominion;
Ikusia zuen bere buruaren gainetik iragaten hain erraz aingerutzat hartzen dugun deabru hori, hego koloreztatuko Satan hori, errubiak ereiten dituena, bere urrezko geziak jauregien aitzinalderat jaurtikitzen, emakumeak purpuraztatzen, tronuak, hain xumeak beren hastapenean, distira ergel batez janzten;