Lord Dunsany

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The Gods of Pegāna

1905

Thy life is long, Eternity is short. So short that, shouldst thou die and Eternity should pass, and after the passing of Eternity thou shouldst live again, thou wouldst say: ‘I closed mine eyes but for an instant.’

For three years there had been pestilence, and in the last of the three a famine; moreover, there was imminence of war.

Time and the Gods

1906

In the city’s midst the gleaming marble of a thousand steps climbed to the citadel where arose four pinnacles beckoning to heaven, and midmost between the pinnacles there stood the dome, vast, as the gods had dreamed it.

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The Gods of Pegāna

Time and the Gods