THE WORM AND THE ANGEL
AS he crawled from the tombs of the fallen a worm met with an angel.
And together they looked upon the kings and kingdoms, and youths and maidens and the cities of men. They saw the old men heavy in their chairs and heard the children singing in the fields. They saw far wars and warriors and walled towns, wisdom and wickedness, and the pomp of kings, and the people of all the lands that the sunlight knew.
And the worm spake to the angel saying: "Behold my food."
"βῆ δʹἀκέων παρὰ θῑνα πολυφλοίσβοιο θαλάσσης,"
murmured the angel, for they walked by the sea, "and can you destroy that too?"
And the worm paled in his anger to a
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