"Hath Agrodaun answered prayer?" And the people heard the words that
the Yozis said.

Then went the priests of Agrodaun away from the shore and up the steep
streets of the city, the people following, and over the moor beyond it
to the foot of Agrodaun, and then said:

"Agrodaun, if thou art not our god, go back and herd with yonder common
hills, and put a cap of snow upon thy head and crouch far off as they
do beneath the sky; but if we have given thee divinity in two thousand
years, if our hopes are all about thee like a cloak, then stand and
look upon thy worshippers from over our city for ever." And the smoke
that ascended from his feet stood still and there fell a hush over
great Agrodaun; and the priests went back to the sea and said to the
three Yozis:

"New gods shall have our worship when Agrodaun grows weary of being our
god, or when in some night-time he shall stride away, leaving us nought
to gaze at that is higher than our city."

And the Yozis sailed away and cursed towards Agrodaun, but could not
hurt him, for he was but a mountain.

And the Yozis sailed along the coast till they came to a river running
to the sea, and they sailed up the river till they came to a people at
work, who furrowed the soil and sowed, and strove against the forest.
Then the Yozis called to the people as they worked in the fields:

"Give us your worship and ye shall have many joys."