Though I dared not look at them save through my fingers, I could feel that the formal scheme was composed of living things, and that it was Nature herself who, by trimming the shape of the foliage, and by adding the crowning ornament of those snowy buds, had made the decorations worthy of what was at once a public rejoicing and a solemn mystery.
Baina, haiei itzalgaizka baizik begiratzera ausartzen ez banintzen ere, ohartu bai ni apaindura arranditsu haiek bizirik zeudela, eta natura bera zela, hostoen artean arrakala haiek zulatuz, pipil zuri haien apaindura gorena erantsiz, dekorazio hura duin bihurtua zuena, izan behar zuena izan zedin, hots, bozkario herritarra eta solemnitate mistikoa, aldi berean.