Desde el alba a los últimos arreboles del día, el seco ruido del martillo y el chirriar asmático de la sierra imperaban en torno al monumento con que el pueblo peregrino rendía homenaje a Quien le había guiado salvo a través de tantos peligros.
From the first blush of dawn until the closing of the twilight, the clatter of the hammer and the rasp of the saw was never absent from the monument which the immigrants erected to Him who had led them safe through many dangers.