"Лорд Дансени. The Gods of the Mountain (англ.)" - читать интересную книгу автора

roasting. Sometimes the gods, being pacific, are
pleased to have roasted instead the flesh of lamb. It
is all one to the gods; let the roasting stop.

Oorander:
No, no, gods of the mountains!

Others:
No, no.

Oorander:
Quick, let us offer flesh to them. If they eat, all is
well.

{They offer it; the beggars eat, all but Agmar, who
watches.}

Illanaun:
One who was ignorant, one who did not know, had almost
said that they ate like hungry men.

Others:
Hush!

Akmos:
Yet they look as though they had not had a meal like
this for a long time.

Oorander:
They have a hungry look.

Agmar: {who has not eaten}
I have not eaten since the world was very new and the
flesh of men was tenderer than now. These younger gods
have learned the habit of eating from the lions.

Oorander:
O oldest of divinities, partake, partake.

Agmar:
It is not fitting that such as I should eat. None eat
but beasts and men and the younger gods. The sun and
the moon and the nimble lightning and I -- we may kill
and we may madden, but we do not eat.

Akmos:
If he but eat of our offering he cannot overwhelm us.

All:
Oh, ancient deity, partake, partake.