But the people answered:

"We may not worship you."

Then answered Snyrg:

"Ye also, have ye a god?"

And the people answered:

"We worship the years to come, and we set the world in order for their
coming, as one layeth raiment on the road before the advent of a King.
And when those years shall come, they shall accept the worship of a
race they knew not, and their people shall make their sacrifice to the
years that follow them, who, in their turn, shall minister to the
_End_."

Then answered Snyrg:

"Gods that shall recompense you not. Rather give us your prayers and
have our pleasures, the pleasures that we shall give you, and when your
gods shall come, let them be wroth--they cannot punish you."

But the people continued to sacrifice their labour to their gods, the
years to come, making the world a place for gods to dwell in, and the
Yozis cursed those gods and sailed away. And Ya, the Lord of malice,
swore that when those years should come, they should see whether it
were well for them to have snatched away the worship from three Yozis.

And still the Yozis sailed, for they said: