"Once when the gods were young and only Their swarthy servant Time was without age, the gods lay sleeping by a broad river upon earth."
Time and the Gods (1906)
Lord Dunsany was born #OTD in 1878. "Time and the Gods", his second book, is considered a major influence on the work of J. R. R. Tolkien, H. P. Lovecraft, Ursula K. Le Guin, and others. via @wikipedia
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