"Dunsany, Lord - Five Plays" - читать интересную книгу автора (Dunsany Lord)

Populace: {in horror}
If we be gods!

Oorander:
Come, let us sacrifice.

Illanaun:
Bring lambs!

Akmos:
Quick! Quick! {Exuent some}

Slag: {with solemn air}
This god is a very divine god.

Thahn:
He is no common god.

Mlan:
Indeed, he has made us.

Citizen: {to Slag}
He will not punish us, master? None of the gods will
punish us? We will make a sacrifice, a good sacrifice.

Another:
We will sacrifice a lamb that the priests have blessed.

First citizen:
Master, you are not wroth with us?

Slag:
Who may say what cloudy dooms are rolling up in the
mind of the eldest of the gods? He is not common god
like us. Once a shepherd went by him in the mountains
and doubted. He sent a doom after that shepherd.

Citizen:
Master, we have not doubted.

Slag:
And the doom found him on the hills at evening.

Second citizen:
It shall be a good sacrifice, master.

{Reenter with a dead lamb and fruits. They offer the
lamb on an altar where there is fire, and fruits before
the altar.}