“Only Shimono Kani, the youngest of the gods, made him a harp out of the heart strings of all the elder gods, and, sitting upon the Path of Stars all in the Midst of Things, played upon the harp a dirge for the gods of Old. And the song told of all vain regrets and of unhappy loves of the gods in the olden time, and of Their great deeds that were to adorn the future years.”
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 “Only Shimono Kani, the youngest of the gods, made him a harp out of the heart strings of all the elder gods, and, sitting upon the Path of Stars all in the Midst of Things, played upon the harp a dirge for the gods of Old. And the song told of all vain regrets and of unhappy loves of the gods in the olden time, and of Their great deeds that were to adorn the future years.”
