At night sometimes the roll of drums behind the curtain of trees would run up the river and remain sustained faintly, as if hovering in the air high over our heads, till the first break of day.
Gauez, inoiz, zuhaitzezko gortinaren atzetik, danbor hotsa ibaian goratu, eta bertan gelditzen zen luzaroan, ahulki, dilindan bezala goiko airean, gure buruen gainean, eguna urratu arte.