![]() These beings were like the waters of the river Than, not to be understood. Tell me the deeds and aspect and name of them who built these things of Stone." And the Daemon replied, "I am Memory, and am wise in lore of the past, but I too am old. The Genie that haunts the moonbeams spake to the Daemon of the Valley, saying, "I am old, and forget much. From hidden springs it rises, and to subterranean grottoes it flows, so that the Daemon of the Valley knows not why its waters are red, nor whither they are bound. For all time did their builders erect them, and in sooth they yet serve nobly, for beneath them the grey toad makes his habitation.Īt the very bottom of the valley lies the river Than, whose waters are slimy and filled with weeds. ![]() Vast are the stones which sleep beneath coverlets of dank moss, and mighty were the walls from which they fell. And in trees that grow gigantic in crumbling courtyards leap little apes, while in and out of deep treasure-vaults writhe poison serpents and scaly things without a name. ![]() Rank is the herbage on each slope, where evil vines and creeping plants crawl amidst the stones of ruined palaces, twining tightly about broken columns and strange monoliths, and heaving up marble pavements laid by forgotten hands. ![]() ![]() And within the depths of the valley, where the light reaches not, move forms not meant to be beheld. In the valley of Nis the accursed waning moon shines thinly, tearing a path for its light with feeble horns through the lethal foliage of a great upas-tree. ![]()
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