^ Actually, I meant to use a cliche phrase...
< ...but I stuck something between its beginning and end that likely lost you...
v ..."C'est la vie", "That's life"...but I added something to make "C'est le monde et la vie" "That's the world, and life." ...though the verb's wrong, let's just take it as an omitted verb before "La vie"...^^;
Hegoak ebaki banizkion
Nerea izango zen,
Ez zuen aldegingo.
Bainan honela
Ez zen gehiago txoria izango,
Eta nik txoria nuen maite.
If I had cut its wings
It would have been mine,
It wouldn't have flown away.
But then it would have been a bird no longer,
And it was the bird that I loved.