and yet the scent of hawthorn which strays plundering along the hedge from which, in a little while, the dog-roses will have banished it, a sound of footsteps followed by no echo, upon a gravel path, a bubble formed at the side of a waterplant by the current, and formed only to burst-my exaltation of mind has borne them with it, and has succeeded in making them traverse all these successive years, while all around them the one-trodden ways have vanished, while those who thronged those ways, and even the memory of those who thronged those trodden ways, are dead.
eta, hala ere, heskaiari darion elorri zuri lurrin hori, laster asto-arrosena jarraikiko zaiena, etorbideko hartxintxarren gaineko urrats-hots oihartzun gabe hori, uhaitzaren ur-lasterrak ur-landare batekin tupust egitean eraturiko urbegi berehala lehertuko den hori, hori guzti hori, nire gogoramenak goraltxatu egin du, eta hainbat urtetan bizirik iraunaraztea erdietsi, ingurumariko bideak ezabatu eta bideok ibili zituztenak eta ibili zituztenon oroitzapena bera ere hil eta askoz gerora ere.