La haie formait comme une suite de chapelles qui disparaissaient sous la jonchée de leurs fleurs amoncelées en reposoir; au-dessous d’elles, le soleil posait à terre un quadrillage de clarté, comme s’il venait de traverser une verrière; leur parfum s’étendait aussi onctueux, aussi délimité en sa forme que si j’eusse été devant l’autel de la Vierge, et les fleurs, aussi parées, tenaient chacune d’un air distrait son étincelant bouquet d’étamines, fines et rayonnantes nervures de style flamboyant comme celles qui à l’église ajouraient la rampe du jubé ou les meneaux du vitrail et qui s’épanouissaient en blanche chair de fleur de fraisier. →
The hedge resembled a series of chapels, whose walls were no longer visible under the mountains of flowers that were heaped upon their altars; while underneath, the sun cast a square of light upon the ground, as though it had shone in upon them through a window; the scent that swept out over me from them was as rich, and as circumscribed in its range, as though I had been standing before the Lady-altar, and the flowers, themselves adorned also, held out each its little bunch of glittering stamens with an air of inattention, fine, radiating 'nerves' in the flamboyant style of architecture, like those which, in church, framed the stair to the rood-loft or closed the perpendicular tracery of the windows, but here spread out into pools of fleshy white, like strawberry-beds in spring.