The Gods! The Gods!

Portrait of D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence 1885–1930

People were bathing and posturing themselves on the beach, and all was dreary, great robot limbs, robot breasts, robot voices, robot even the gay umbrellas.

But a woman, shy and alone, was washing herself under a tap and the glimmer of the presence of the gods was like lilies, and like water-lilies.

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