VII

 

Ingelesak gogorrak dira

   Bere odolekoak ez geranontzat,

Bañan, nola aldatzen dira

   sarrera ematen digutenean.

Adikorrenak, egizkoak,

   Ezin adiskide obeagoak,

Zail da gogoratzea

   Asieran nola otz-arazi ninduten.

London osoa erakutsi,

   Johnnie ta bere lagunak;

Zabaldegira eraman ninduten

   Aste-buru luzeetara;

Zoriontsuagoa egundaño ez,

   sekulan ez ainbeste atsegin artu,

Aste asko igaro nitun Ingeleterran

   Bat bakarraren ordean.

 

 

 

VII

The English are frosty / When you’re no kith or kin / Of theirs, but how they alter / When once they take you in! / The kindest, the truest, / The best friends ever known, / It’s hard to remember / How they froze you to a bone. / They showed me all London, / Johnnie and his friends; / They took me to the country / For long week-ends; / I never was so happy, / I never had such fun, / I stayed many weeks in England / Instead of just one.