The Night Land

And they made dim the lights in the Great Causeway, that there should no

glare go forth into the Land, when the Gate was opened; and behold, they

opened not the lesser gate within the greater, for me; but did honour my

journey, in that they swung wide the Great Gate itself, through which a

monstrous army might pass. And there was an utter silence all about the

Gate; and in the hushed light the two thousand that made the Full Watch,

held up each the Diskos, silently, to make salute; and humbly, I held up

the Diskos reversed, and went forward into the Dark.