Time and the Gods by Lord (Edward J. M. D. Plunkett) Dunsany
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"I will travel further," many said:
"This man lies, for the road ends here." And he that travelled to the End hath told that when the thunder was heard upon the road there arose the sound of the voices of all the priests as far as he could hear, crying: "Hearken to Shilo"--"Hear Mush"--"Lo! Kynash"--"The voice of Sho"--"Mynarthitep is angry"--"Hear the word of Slig!" And far away along the road one cried to the traveller that Sheenath stirred in his sleep. O King this is very doleful. It is told that that traveller came at last to the utter End and there was a mighty gulf, and in the darkness at the bottom of the gulf one small god crept, no bigger than a hare, whose voice came crying in the cold: "I know not." And beyond the gulf was nought, only the small god crying. And he that travelled to the End fled backwards for a great distance till he came to temples again, and entering one where a priest cried: "This is the End," lay down and rested on a couch. There Yush sat silent, carved with an emerald tongue and two great eyes of sapphire, and there many rested and were happy. And an old priest, coming from comforting a child, came over to that traveller who had seen the End |
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