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

We are lost!

Agmar:
Be quiet! I must think.

{They all sit still. Citizens enter and prostrate
themselves. Agmar sits deep in thought.}

Illanaun: {to Agmar}
Two holy pilgrims have gone to your sacred shrines,
wherein you were wont to sit before you left the
mountains. {Agmar says nothing} They return even now.

Agmar:
They left us here and went to find the gods? A fish
once took a journey into a far country to find the sea.

Illanaun:
Most reverend deity, their piety is so great that they
have gone to worship even your shrines.

Agmar:
I know these men that have great piety. Such men have
often prayed to me before, but their prayers are not
acceptable. They little love the gods; their only care
is their piety. I know these pious ones. They will
say that the seven gods were still at Marma. They will
lie and say that we were still at Marma. So shall they
seem more pious than you all, pretending that they
alone have seen the gods. Fools shall believe them and
share in their damnation.

Oorander: {to Illanaun}
Hush! You anger the gods.

Illanaun:
I am not sure who I anger.

Oorander:
It may be they are the gods.

Illanaun:
Where are these men from Marma?

Citizen:
Here are the dromedary men; they are coming now.

Illanaun: {to Agmar}
The holy pilgrims from your shrine are come to worship
you.