As I've sung you of our glories

So I'll sing you of our fall.

These are very ancient stories,

Tales that should be known to all.

Our world was wrapped in beauty,

We had mastered every art,

For each man knew his duty

And each one did his part.

We gloried in the wonder

Of the things that we could do.

Our arts controlled the thunder

And the wind and lightning too.

We soared above the azure skies,

We sailed the gray-green seas,

We made the mighty mountains rise,

We grew the towering trees.

We had started close to nature,

Deep in nature was our source,

With every other creature

In agreement with our course.

For man in his expansions

Was fulfilling basic dreams

Of making many mansions

For achieving many schemes.

Then slowly man forgot that

Such agreement had to be,

But nature knows its not that

Way in this reality.

At first we got agreement

Out of habits carried long,

Assumption of the old intent

That man would mean no wrong.

But nature's other beings

Who had kept to older ways

Began at last to see things

Growing worse with passing days.

Men had broken the agreement,

We had put them in our thrall,

And they realized that we meant

To be masters over all.

We ruled the oceans, sailed the skies,

And rearranged the land,

But such a culture, built on lies,

Could not forever stand.

Our pride obscured the harmony

That helped us rule the Earth.

We came to feel that only we

Could say what life was worth.

Forgetting former brothers

And what they had to say,

We stood against these others

Who were keeping nature's way.

We stirred the giant sleeping,

We defied the grand design,

By building without keeping

All of nature well in mind.

That was when the hills and mountains

We had built our homes upon

Tumbled down, or burst in fountains

Spouting fire, and were gone.

The oceans swelled, the prairies reeled,

The skies grew dark with smoke,

The rock ran red then recongealed

Or buckled up and broke.

In those terrifying hours

Gleaming metal turned to rust,

Our proud and graceful towers

Fell to ruin, ash and dust.