(The Destroyer of Hours)  
Time is the hound of Sish.
 
At Sish's bidding do the hours run before him as he goeth upon his way.
 
Never hath Sish stepped backward nor ever hath he tarried; never hath he relented to the things that once he knew nor turned to them again.
 
Before Sish is Kib, and behind him goeth Mung.
 
Very pleasant are all things before the face of Sish, but behind him they are withered and old.
 
And Sish goeth ceaselessly upon his way.
 
Once the gods walked upon Earth as men walk and spake with their mouths like Men. That was in Wornath-Mavai. They walk not now.
 
And Wornath-Mavai was a garden fairer than all the gardens upon
Earth.
 
Kib was propitious, and Mung raised not his hand against it, neither did Sish assail it with his hours.
 
Wornath-Mavai lieth in a valley and looketh towards the south, and on the slopes of it Sish rested among the flowers when Sish was young.
 
Thence Sish went forth into the world to destroy its cities, and to provoke his hours to assail all things, and to batter against them with the rust and with the dust.
 
And Time, which is the hound of Sish, devoured all things; and S............