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

they went away!

Oogno:
When they questioned him concerning the gods and Man!

Thahn:
When they asked him why the gods permitted cancer!

Slag:
Ah, my wise master!

Mlan:
How well his scheme has succeeded!

Oogno:
How far away is hunger!

Thahn:
It is even like to one of last year's dreams, the
trouble of a brief night long ago.

Oogno: {laughing}
Ho, ho, ho! To see them pray to us.

Agmar:
When we were beggars did we not speak as beggars? Did
we not whine as they? Was not our mien beggarly?

Oogno:
We were the pride of our calling.

Agmar:
Then now that we are gods, let us be as gods, and not
mock our worshippers.

Ulf:
I think that the gods *do* mock their worshippers.

Agmar:
The gods have never mocked us. We are above all
pinnacles that we have ever gazed at in dreams.

Ulf:
I think that when man is high then most of all are the
gods wont to mock him.

Thief: {entering}
Master! I have been with those that know all and see
all. I have been with the thieves, master. They know
me for one of the craft, but they do not know me as