The sea and mountains, mist and cattle and yellow broom-flowers, and fishing boats with lateen sails like dark wings against the sunrise towards Mallorca: delight of the nose and the eyes and the ears in all living perceptions until the poison of other-worldliness wells up suddenly in him and he is a Christian and a mystic full of echoes of old soul-torturing. In Maragall's most expressive work, a sequence of poems called El Comte Arnau, all this is synthesized. These are from the climax.
All the voices of the earth
acclaim count Arnold
because from the dark trial
he has come back triumphant.
"Son of the earth, son of the earth,
count Arnold,
now ask, now ask
what cannot you do?"
"Live, live, live forever,