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Elhuyarren itzultzaile automatikoaren logoa

Argiako Bertso jarriak

Set to the seasons

Imanol Lazkano

06 July 2010

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SPRING I When the clock of nature has reached its time, the most elegant in the seashore has taken its place. Trees for trees, forests for uju and uju: The cuckoo is happy to proclaim the spring.	II The trees are green, the flowers are transparent and in the blue dawn the sweet melodies of the dunes of the cattle echo on the mountaintops. The blood renews itself in the veins of all creatures, I would say, the whole ludi of us in love.	SUMMER III After three months in the spring thrill, one goes and the other matures, the ages come in line. When barley and wheat ripen and corn fields, that which was born in the spring is embodied in the summer.
IV The days are long and the evenings are short, the northern needles of all are gazing at the sun. Because it provides a good opportunity for such rich seasons, the mountains fill up and the beaches fill up.	AUTUMN V Corn, beans, apples and chestnuts are everywhere. Every tree has graced the forest with its own colour. The southern wind has invited the dove to warm up. We all really admire how sweet the season is.	VI As all beings are created in this world, so the year grows old day by day. When it becomes a leaf created in the spring, the orb in its language tells us that winter is coming.
WINTER VII When that winter comes, what does it bring? Snow and cascade, ice the same next. The lameness caused by this sunset has its own charm, but the hardest season.	VIII The trees have been cleared for us, and the mountains have become white; the mare, the cow, and the sheep have gone away from the tops; the sweat of the farmer's forehead has dried up; perhaps this night is for him, he has fallen asleep.