the hair of his beloved.

"Sardathrion, the gods must kiss once more the place where thy streets
were once.

"There were wonderful marbles in thy streets, Sardathrion."

"Sardathrion, Sardathrion, the gods weep for thee."




THE COMING OF THE SEA


Once there was no sea, and the gods went walking over the green plains
of earth.

Upon an evening of the forgotten years the gods were seated on the
hills, and all the little rivers of the world lay coiled at Their feet
asleep, when Slid, the new god, striding through the stars, came
suddenly upon earth lying in a corner of space. And behind Slid there
marched a million waves, all following Slid and tramping up the
twilight; and Slid touched Earth in one of her great green valleys that
divide the south, and here he encamped for the night with all his waves
about him. But to the gods as They sat upon Their hilltops a new cry
came crying over the green spaces that lay below the hills, and the
gods said:

"This is neither the cry of life nor yet the whisper of death. What is