And now vegetation matured with vigour; Lowood shook loose its tresses; it became all green, all flowery; its great elm, ash, and oak skeletons were restored to majestic life; woodland plants sprang up profusely in its recesses; unnumbered varieties of moss filled its hollows, and it made a strange ground-sunshine out of the wealth of its wild primrose plants: I have seen their pale gold gleam in overshadowed spots like scatterings of the sweetest lustre.
Mil variedades de musgo cubrían el suelo. Más allá de las tapias del jardín se elevaban, frondosas, las colinas a la sazón deslumbrantes de verdor, dominando el recinto del colegio.