A splendid Midsummer shone over England: skies so pure, suns so radiant as were then seen in long succession, seldom favour even singly, our wave- girt land. It was as if a band of Italian days had come from the South, like a flock of glorious passenger birds, and lighted to rest them on the cliffs of Albion.
Hacía un tiempo espléndido, como de mediados de verano, con un cielo tan puro y un sol tan radiante, que se diría que una bandada de días italianos, a la manera de magníficos pájaros, hubiese venido desde el Sur hasta Inglaterra.