. Travels in the Pyrenees : including Andorra and the coast from Barcelona to Carcassonne. yet when hewrote the Taj was already famous, though the Shway Dagonwas almost unknown. But however ignorant we may be ofLo Canigou, there is no escaping its beauty and its com-pelling influence once one has looked upon it. It inspiresthe lives of those who live within sight of it, and its memorynever fades. It has long been the theme of Catalan poetry, and haseven an epic to itself— Lo Canigo of Verdaguer, of whichMistral wrote : Canigo est la legende, la legende doree, devotre merveilleux pays de Roussi
. Travels in the Pyrenees : including Andorra and the coast from Barcelona to Carcassonne. yet when hewrote the Taj was already famous, though the Shway Dagonwas almost unknown. But however ignorant we may be ofLo Canigou, there is no escaping its beauty and its com-pelling influence once one has looked upon it. It inspiresthe lives of those who live within sight of it, and its memorynever fades. It has long been the theme of Catalan poetry, and haseven an epic to itself— Lo Canigo of Verdaguer, of whichMistral wrote : Canigo est la legende, la legende doree, devotre merveilleux pays de Roussillon oia les fees hantentencore les cimes blanches des montagnes. Verdaguer nousa chante ce quelles font la haut, dans la langue precise,rhythmee et assonante de nos Chansons de Geste. The latest of its poetic admirers is Rudyard Kipling, inwhose verse we may hope that the immortal mountain maybe enshrined for English hearts. Meanwhile he has allowed , 5 s :>> « ^IT-Iili y J^j^y — ^l^^Sfc ^rilBBp - -^ ?• - --#^-.^, ^ THE SHIP AT THE SUMMIT OF LA LOGE,PERPIGNAN {page 130). PERPIGNAN AND THE CANIGOU {pagC I27) To face page 122 THE CANIGOU 123 me to transcribe here some of his own first impressions of itconveyed in a letter to M. George Auriol of Perpignan. Thisletter is already well known in its French version all overthe Pyrenees-Orientales ; for in France such things are heldof much account, and the visit of a Poet, of a man pre-eminent in letters, appeals more to the Department thanthat of all the crowds of distinguished and titled people whonow frequent the Vernet waters. ** / came here, wrote Mr. Kipling, ^ in search of nothingmore than a little sunshine. But I found Canigou, whom Idiscovered to be a magician among mountains, and I submittedmyself to his power. A t first he could reproduce for me, accordingto the thought or the desire of the moment, either a peak of theHimalayas or the outlines of certain hills in South Africa whichare dear to me; transporting m
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