The Birth of Venus

Part Two

The storm now went upon the land and raised havoc with those things
who had never seen such fury. It struck angrily at the ground, and
from it rose angry men, the first men. And they saw the tempest they
were born into and the devastation around them. And the wisdom that
had dwelt in the great rocks, flew from their crying mouths,
saying; “This is a cruel land!” And they took felled trees to the sea
and made rafts of them, then sailed away.At first light, all was
still and quiet. The sea had lost much of its voice that now filled
the mouths of the captains of the ships, they using the wisdom that
now found a home in them, commanding as the sea had done the new
living things to make their crafts sturdier and defy the sea
itself.And they were…