John William Godward paintings

John William Godward paintings
John William Waterhouse paintings
John Singer Sargent paintings
But slowly the days grow warmer, the air drier; there is a restlessness in the air. The shadows begin to fall differently. And the crowds gather in the streets to hear the Year Priests announce the solstice and watch the sun stop, and pause, and turn south.
People leave the cities, one here, a couple there, a family there... It has begun to stir again, that soft hormonal buzz in the blood, that first vague yearning intimation or memory, the body's knowledge of its kingdom coming.
The young people follow that knowledge blindly, without knowing they know it. The married couples are drawn back together by all their wakened memories, intensely sweet. To go home, to go and be there together!
All they learned and did all those thousands of days and nights in the cities is left behind them, packed up, put away. Till they come back south again...
"That is why it was easy to turn us aside," Kergemmeg said. "Because our