The troops of Tritons and Dryads, hurtling across from hill and sea amid clouds of cyclamen pink toward a transfigured Conca d'Oro, (literally "Golden Shell," is the name of the hills encircling Palermo) and bent on glorifying the House of Salina, seemed suddenly so overwhelmed with exaltation as to discard the most elementary rules of perspective;
Tritoi eta driade lerroak agertu ziren bat-batean, masusta-gorri eta arrosa-more koloreko hodeien artean, mendi eta itsasoetatik Conca d'Oro itxuraldatu baterantz oldarturik Salina etxearen loria goresteko, perspektiba-araurik oinarrizkoenei konturik ez jartzeraino bezain pozkarioz gainezka;