Lullabies of a Mythical Sun

Aye, even to the memories which were the possession of that far future youth, who was indeed I, of his childhood's days, when his nurse of that Age swung him, and crooned impossible lullabies of this mythical sun which, according to those future fairy-tales, had once passed across the blackness that now lay above the Pyramid.

The Night Land (1912) by William Hope Hodgson

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Context: The narrator recalls the childhood of his far-future self, born long after the sun went dark.

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Source: Chapter II: The Last Redoubt

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