"radieux et ivres de votre luminière du Rhone."
Fields, vineyards, olive-groves, castles, cities, drift by as in a beautiful dream.
All the while the hot Provençal sun is beating on the barge, and the sorceress river is flowing and flowing: the whole scene a symbol of the country and its magic. After one has swept down and toiled up the Rhone in the Caburle, one knows a little more of what it all means, this fief of the sun and wind, this Land of the Passionate River!
CHAPTER XXVI
THE CAMARGUE
"Not a growing thing
Save stunted tamarisk.
Salt-wort, sea poppy"