They would come from their nearby homes, probably on foot-1 imagined-family groups, troops of young people like those we had met just now in the road, pairs of lovers or friends, or else alone; just as today, in Italian villages, the cemetery gate is still the place where every evening stroll is bound to end. They came among the cone-shaped tombs, which are as solid and heavy as the bunkers the German soldiers strewed vainly all over Europe during this last war (gradually, through the centuries, the iron cart-wheels have cut two deep parallel furrows in the paved road that crosses the cemetery from one end to the other):
Gaur egun, Italiako probintzietako herrietan, kanposantuko hesi-atea arratsaldeko paseo guztien amaileku derrigorrezkoa den bezalaxe, ia beti oinez etortzen ziren-nire irudimenean-hurbileko bizilekutik, taldeka, senitartekoak, ahaideak, lagun soilak, edo beharbada neska-mutil brigadatan, arestian topatu genuenaren antzera, edota bikoteka bihotzeko pertsonarekin, eta baita bakarka ere, eta hilobi koniko, sendo eta gotor, soldadu alemanek azken gerratean Europa osoan alferrik sakabanatu zituzten bunkerrak bezalakoetan sartzen ziren; hilobi haiek, bai barrutik, bai kanpotik ere, bizien egoitza irmoen antza zuten, noski.