“Pattering Leaves, the dancer, cried: ‘Not any more, not any more at all shall we drift up the carven hall to dance before the King. He that now watches the magic of his prophets will behold no more the wonder of the dance, and among ancient parchments, strange and wise, he shall forget the swirl of drapery when we swing together through the Dance of the Myriad Steps.’ And with her were Silvern Fountain and Summer Lightning and Dream of the Sea, each lamenting that they should dance no more to please the eyes of the King. And Intahn who had carried at the banquet for fifty years the goblet of the King set with its four sapphires each as large as an eye, said as he spread his hands towards the palace making the sign of farewell: ‘Not all the magic of prophecy nor yet foreseeing nor perceiving may equal the power of wine.'”
Appearance List Later editions: Time and the Gods (circa 1918, unauthorized omnibus), Time and the Gods (1922) revised by Dunsany, Time and the Gods (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1922), Beyond the Fields We Know (Ballantine, 1972) ed. Lin Carter.
Description “Pattering Leaves, the dancer, cried: ‘Not any more, not any more at all shall we drift up the carven hall to dance before the King. He that now watches the magic of his prophets will behold no more the wonder of the dance, and among ancient parchments, strange and wise, he shall forget the swirl of drapery when we swing together through the Dance of the Myriad Steps.’ And with her were Silvern Fountain and Summer Lightning and Dream of the Sea, each lamenting that they should dance no more to please the eyes of the King. And Intahn who had carried at the banquet for fifty years the goblet of the King set with its four sapphires each as large as an eye, said as he spread his hands towards the palace making the sign of farewell: ‘Not all the magic of prophecy nor yet foreseeing nor perceiving may equal the power of wine.'”
