The Earth Gods
When the night of the twelfth aeon fell,
And silehe high tide of night, swallowed the hills,
The three earth-bods, the Master Titans of life,
Appeared upon the mountains.
Rivers ran about their feet;
The mist floated across their breasts,
And their heads rose in majesty above the world.
Then they spoke, and like distant thunder
Their voices rolled over the plains.
First God
The wind blows eastward;
I would turn my face to the south,
For the wind crowds my nostrils with the odors of dead things.
Sed God
It is the st of burnt flesh, sweet and bountiful.
I would breathe it.
First God
It is the odor of mortality parg upon its own faint flame.
Heavily does it hang upon the air,
And like foul breath of the pit
It offends my senses.
I would turn my face to the stless north.
Sed God
It is the inflamed fragrance of brooding life
This I would breathe now and forever.
Gods live upon sacrifice,
Their thirst quenched by blood,
Their hearts appeased with young souls,
Their sinews strengthened by the deathless sighs
Of those who dwell with death;
Their thrones are built upon the ashes of geions.
First God
Weary is my spirit of all there is.
I would not move a hand to create a world
Nor to erase one.
I would not live could I but die,
For the weight of aeons is upon me,
And the ceaseless moan of the seas exhausts my sleep.
Could I but lose the primal aim
And vanish like a wasted sun;
Could I but strip my divinity of its purpose
And breathe my immortality into space,
And be no more;
Could I but be ed and pass from times memory
Into the emptiness of nowhere!
Third God
Listen my brothers, my a brothers.
A youth in yonder vale
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