"Dunsany, Lord - Time and the Gods" - читать интересную книгу автора (Dunsany Lord)

"Sardathrion, the gods must kiss once more the place
where thy streets were once.
"There were wonderful marbles in thy streets, Sardathrion."
"Sardathrion, Sardathrion, the gods weep for thee."












The Coming of the Sea


Once there was no sea, and the gods went walking over the
green plains of earth.
Upon an evening of the forgotten years the gods were
seated on the hills, and all the little rivers of the world
lay coiled at Their feet asleep, when Slid, the new god,
striding through the stars, came suddenly upon earth lying
in a corner of space. And behind Slid there marched a
million waves, all following Slid and tramping up the
twilight; and Slid touched Earth in one of her great green
valleys that divide the south, and here he encamped for the
night with all his waves about him. But to the gods as They
sat upon Their hilltops a new cry came crying over the green
spaces that lay below the hills, and the gods said:
"This is neither the cry of life nor yet the whisper of
death. What is this new cry that the gods have never
commanded, yet which comes to the ears of the gods?"
And the gods together shouting made the cry of the south
calling the south wind to them. And again the gods shouted
all together making the cry of the north, calling the north
wind to Them; and thus They gathered to Them all Their winds
and sent these four down into the low plains to find what
thing it was that called with the new cry, and to drive it
away from the gods.
Then all the winds harnessed up their clouds and drave
forth till they came to the great green valley that divides
the south in twain, and there found Slid with all his waves
about him. Then for a space Slid and the four winds
struggled with one another till the strength of the winds
was gone, and they limped back to the gods, their masters,
and said:
"We have met this new thing that has come upon the earth