Long before the dawn of man's history, They had walked our Earth The heights they had reached But then, This all-but-Divine race perished in a single night. Sickness, insanity, crime, and all injustice they turned, Still with high benevolence, outward toward space
In times long past, This planet was the home of a mighty race of beings.
For me
Even their cloud-piercing towers of glass, And porcelain, and adamantine steel Have crumbled back into the soil.
After a million years of shining sanity, They could hardly have understood what power was destroying them