large/803/book_wonder_ge_librivox_64kb_mp3/bookofwonder_05_dunsany_64kb_16
large/803/book_wonder_ge_librivox_64kb_mp3/bookofwonder_05_dunsany_64kb
English
803
THE INJUDICIOUS PRAYERS OF POMBO THE IDOLATER Pombo the idolater had prayed to Ammuz a simple prayer, a necessary prayer, such as even an idol of ivory could very easily grant, and Ammuz had not immediately granted it. THE INJUDICIOUS PRAYERS OF POMBO THY DOLATER POMBO THY DOLATER HAD PRAYED AMOS A SIMPLE PRAYER A NECESSARY PRAYER SUCH AS EVEN AN IDOL OF IVORY COULD VERY EASILY GRANT AND AMUS HAS NOT IMMEDIATELY GRANTED IT
he sleep that survived a thousand years. As they came away they saw that indulgent chair close by the edge of the World in which Owner of the Box had lately sat reading selfishly and alone the most beautiful songs and verses that poet ever dreamed. They came in silence to the foot of the stairs; and then it befell that as they drew near safely, in the night's most secret hour, some hand in an upper chamber lit a shocking light, lit it and made no sound. For a moment it might have been an ordinary light, fatal as even that could very well be at such a moment as this; but when it began to follow them like an eye and to grow redder and redder as it watched them, then even optimism despaired. And Sippy very unwisely attempted flight, and Slorg even as unwisely tried to hide; but Slith, knowing well why that light was lit in that secret upper chamber and _who_ it was that lit it, leaped over the edge of the World and is falling from us still through the unreverberate blackness of the abyss.  THE BOOK OF WONDER BY LORD DUNZANIE THIS IS LIVERPOX RECORDING ALL LIVER BOX RECORDINGS ARE IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO VOLUNTEER PLEASE VISIT LIVER VOX D ORG
large/803/book_wonder_ge_librivox_64kb_mp3/bookofwonder_05_dunsany_64kb
file
download/librilight/large/803/book_wonder_ge_librivox_64kb_mp3/bookofwonder_05_dunsany_64kb.flac