"Lord Dunsany - Time And The Gods" - читать интересную книгу автора (Dunsany Lord)

gods for Their dream city, crying:
"Tears may not bring again Sardathrion.
"But this the gods may do who have seen, and seen with
unrelenting eyes, the sorrows of ten thousand worlds -- thy
gods may weep for thee.
"Tears may not bring again Sardathrion.
"Believe it not, Sardathrion, that ever thy gods sent
this doom to thee; he that hath overthrown thee shall
overthrow thy gods.
"How oft when Night came suddenly on Morning playing in
the fields of Twilight did we watch thy pinnacles emerging
from the darkness, Sardathrion, Sardathrion, dream city of
the gods, and thine onyx lions looming limb by limb from the
dusk.
"How often have we sent our child the Dawn to play with
thy fountain tops; how often hath Evening, loveliest of our
goddesses, strayed long upon thy balconies.
"Let one fragment of thy marbles stand up above the dust
for thine old gods to caress, as a man when all else is lost
treasures one lock of the hair of his beloved.
"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