in a fever of emulation we all vied with one another in composing brilliant pages of military "history" in which to figure sublimely. In those heroic romances we wore the skins of phantasmagoric characters, but deep within them our ludicrous selves trembled body and soul!
Gesta kantore haundi batean bizi ginen, pertsonaia fantastiko batzuen larrua harturik, eta haien barrenean, hondoan, gu geunden, dardarrez, irrigarri, geure arima eta haragiaren mami guziarekin.