the dull eyes of the river be certain that it is only for a little the heavenly ones have heard thee and presently justice will be done gk now mother to the flood again men and cattle are thick on the the banks the villages melt because of thee but the the bridge stands the turned into the as rose it is ended said the there is no more justice from the heavenly ones ye have made shame and sport of who asked no more than a few score lives of my who lie under the leaf roofs of the village of the young girls and the young men who sing to them in the of the child that will be bom next of that which was to night said and when all is done what profit to morrow sees them at work ay if ye swept the bridge out from end to end they would begin anew hear me i is drunk always his people with new nay but they are very old ones the said laughing hears the talk of the schools and the dreams of the holy men thinks only of his fat but i� i live with these my people asking for no gifts and so receiving them and very tender art thou of thy people said the they are my own the old women dream of me the bridge turning in their sleep the maids look and listen for me when they go to fill their hy the river i walk hy the young men waiting without the gates at dusk and i call over my shoulder to the white ye know heavenly ones that i alone of us all walk upon the earth continually and have no pleasure in our heavens so long as a green blade springs here or there are two voices at twilight in the standing crops wise are ye but ye live far off forgetting whence ye came so do i not forget and the fire carriage your ye say and the fire carriages bring a thousand where but ten came in the old years true that is true to day but to morrow they are dead brother said said the bull as leaned forward again and to morrow what of to morrow this only a new word creeping from mouth to mouth among the common a word that neither man nor god can lay hold of � an a little lazy word among the common folk saying and none know who set that word that they weary of ye heavenly ones the laughed together softly and then beloved they said � and to cover that weariness they my people will bring to thee and to thee at first greater and a louder noise of worship but the word has gone abroad and after they will pay fewer to your fat next they will forget your but so slowly that no man can say how his f b an the bridge i i knew i i spoke this also but they would not hear said the we should have we should have slain i it is too late now ye should have slain at the beginning when the men from across the water had taught our folk nothing now my people see their work and go away thinking they do not think of the heavenly ones altogether they think of the fire carriage and the other things that the bridge have done and when your priests thrust forward hands asking they give a little unwillingly that is the beginning among one or two or five or for i moving among my people know what is in their hearts and the end of the gods what shall the end be said the end shall be as it was in the beginning o son of i the flame shall die upon the and the prayer upon the tongue till ye become little gods of the names that the hunters of rats and of dogs whisper in the thicket and among the rag gk ds pot of the tree and the mark as ye were at the beginning that is the end for thee and for of the common people it is very far away also it is a lie many women have kissed they told him this to cheer their own hearts when the grey hairs came and he has told us the tale said the bull below his breath their gk ds came and we changed them i took the the bridge woman and made her twelve armed so shall we twist all their said their this is no question of their gk one or man or woman the matter is with the people they move and not the gods of the said so be it i have made a man worship the fire carriage as it stood still breathing smoke and he knew not that he worshipped me said the they will only change a little the names of their i shall lead the of the bridges as of old shall be worshipped in the schools by such as doubt and despise their fellows shall have his and the donkey drivers the and the of toys beloved they will do no more than change the names and that we have seen a thousand times surely they will do no more than change the names echoed but there was an uneasy movement among the they will change more than the names me alone they cannot kill so long as a maiden and a man meet together or the spring follows the winter rains heavenly ones not for nothing have i walked upon the earth my people know not now what they know but i who live with them i read their hearts great kings the beginning of the end is bom already the fire carriages shout the names of new that are not the old under new names drink now and 