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These younger gods have learned the habit of eating from the lions. OORANDER O oldest of divinities, partake, partake. AGMAR It is not fitting that such as I should eat. None eat but beasts and men and the younger gods. The Sun and the Moon and the nimble Lightning and I, we may kill, and we may madden, but we do not eat. AKMOS If he but eat of our offering he cannot overwhelm us.
ILLANAUN I do but wish to prove his divinity. I will fetch the Woldery wine. AKMOS He will not drink. Yet if he does, then he will not overwhelm us. Let us offer him the wine. FIRST BEGGAR It is Woldery wine! SECOND BEGGAR It is Woldery! THIRD BEGGAR A goblet of Woldery wine! FOURTH BEGGAR O blessed day! MLAN O happy times! SLAG O my wise Master! Illanaun gives it to Agmar.
OORANDER This is not wonted. ILLANAUN It is not in accordance with custom. AKMOS Prophecy hath not thought it. SLAG She comes to us new and nimble remembering olden loves. OORANDER It were well that prophets should come and speak to us. ILLANAUN This hath not been in the past. Let prophets come; let prophets speak to us of future things. CITIZEN I heard men speak to-day in the market-place.
DROMEDARY MAN Their shrines were empty. OORANDER Behold the gods of the mountain! AKMOS They have indeed come from Marma. OORANDER Come. Let us go away to prepare a sacrifice, a mighty sacrifice to atone for our doubting. SLAG My most wise Master! AGMAR No, no, Slag. I do not know what has befallen. When I went by Marma only two weeks ago the idols of green jade were still seated there.
AGMAR Let the pestilence not fall at once upon this city, as it had indeed designed to; let not the earthquake swallow it all immediately up amid the howls of the thunder; let not infuriate armies overwhelm those that escape if we be gods. OORANDER Come let us sacrifice. ILLANAUN Bring lambs. AKMOS Quick, quick. THAHN He is no common god. MLAN Indeed he has made us.
ALL O ancient deity, partake, partake. AGMAR Enough. Let it be enough that these have condescended to this bestial and human habit. OORANDER But beggars eat. ILLANAUN Now I never knew a beggar yet who would refuse a bowl of Woldery wine. AKMOS This is no beggar. ILLANAUN Nevertheless let us offer him a bowl of Woldery wine. AKMOS You do wrong to doubt him.
AGMAR There is no benevolence greater than our benevolence. ILLANAUN Then we need do little: they portend no danger to us. AGMAR There is no anger greater than our anger. OORANDER Let us make sacrifice to them, if they be gods. AKMOS We humbly worship you, if ye be gods.
To the man on watch all things ahead are black and the stars guide him not, for he knows not what they are. ILLANAUN Should we not investigate this prophecy? OORANDER Let us accept it. It is as the small uncertain light of a lantern, carried it may be by a drunkard but along the shore of some haven. Let us be guided. AKMOS It may be that they are but benevolent gods.
OORANDER No, no, gods of the mountain! OTHERS No, no. OORANDER Quick, let us offer the flesh to them. If they eat all is well. ILLANAUN One who was ignorant, one who did not know, had almost said that they ate like hungry men. OTHERS Hush. AKMOS Yet they look as though they had not had a meal like this for a long time. OORANDER They have a hungry look.
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