Sandro Botticelli The Birth of Venus painting

Sandro Botticelli The Birth of Venus paintingEdward Hopper Nighthawks paintingFrederic Edwin Church Sunset painting
hundred and forty men, women and children walking wearily towards the sea.
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The dead grew in number, and the groups of unsettled pilgrims around the Mercedes got larger night by night. Mirza Saeed began to tell them stories. He told them about lemmings, and how the enchantress Circe turned men into pigs; he told, too, the story of a pipe-player who lured a town's children into a mountain-crack. When he had told this tale in their own language he recited verses in English, so that they could listen to the the poetry even though they didn't understand the words. "Hamelin town's in Brunswick," he began. "Near famous Hanover City. The River Weser, deep and wide, washes its walls on the southern side . . ."
Now he had the satisfaction of seeing the girl Ayesha advance, looking furious, while the butterflies glowed like the campfire behind her, making it appear as though flames were streaming from her body.