Lord Dunsany

The Gods of Pegana Lord Dunsany

Book Excerptfollow where Slid is gathering up his own, to rejoice where Slid rejoices, singing the chaunt of Slid, even as will at the Last gather all the Lives of the People about the feet of MANA-YOOD-SUSHAI. THE DEEDS OF MUNG(Lord of all Deaths between Pegana and the Rim) Once, as Mung went his way athwart the Earth and up and down its cities and across its plains, Mung came upon a man who was afraid when Mung said: "I am Mung!"And Mung said: "Were the forty million years before thy coming intolerable to thee?"And Mung said: "Not less tolerable to thee shall be the forty million years to come!"Then Mung made against him the sign of Mung and the Life of the Man was fettered no longer with hands and feet. At the end of the flight of the arrow there is Mung, and in the houses and the cities of Men. Mung walketh in all places at all times. But mostly he loves to walk in the dark and still, along the river mists when the wind hath sank, a little before night meeteth with the morning upon the hig