distance crouching behind the ships the gods came wading through the
sea that They might have the worship of the isles. And to every isle of
the three the gods showed themselves in different garb and guise, and
to all they said:

"Leave your flocks. Go forth and fight for the honour of the gods."

And from one of the isles all the folk came forth in ships to battle
for gods that strode through the isle like kings. And from another they
came to fight for gods that walked like humble men upon the earth in
beggars' rags; and the people of the other isle fought for the honour
of gods that were clothed in hair like beasts; and had many gleaming
eyes and claws upon their foreheads. But of how these people fought
till the isles grew desolate but very glorious, and all for the fame of
the gods, are many histories writ.




NIGHT AND MORNING


Once in an arbour of the gods above the fields of twilight Night
wandering alone came suddenly on Morning. Then Night drew from his face
his cloak of dark grey mists and said: "See, I am Night," and they two
sitting in that arbour of the gods, Night told wondrous stories of old
mysterious happenings in the dark. And Morning sat and wondered, gazing
into the face of Night and at his wreath of stars. And Morning told how
the rains of Snamarthis smoked in the plain, but Night told how
Snamarthis held riot in the dark, with revelry and drinking and tales