but, arranged upon the altar itself, inseparable from the mysteries in whose celebration it was playing a part, it thrust in among the tapers and the sacred vessels its rows of branches, tied to one another horizontally in a stiff, festal scheme of decoration; and they were made more lovely still by the scalloped outline of the dark leaves, over which were scattered in profusion, as over a bridal train, little clusters of buds of a dazzling whiteness.
Loreok ez ziren elizako-leku saindu baina bertara sar gintezkeeneko-aldarean soilik kokatuak izaten, misterioen ospakizunean partaide ezinbesteko, baizik eta hedatu ere egiten zituzten noranahi, zutargi eta ontzi sakratuen artetik, beren adar horizontalki elkarrekin lotuak, festa-aprestua irudi, beren hostailaren parpailak oraindik apaingarri, eta beronetan ereinik, oparo, emazte ezkonberriaren soinekoaren dandarrean bezala, zuritasun itsugarrizko hainbat pipil-xorta.