Continuing the story, humanity stumbles--
gone is the glory, there's a far distant rumble
The clouds have gathered and exploded now:
axes shattered, there is no North or South!
Far off, the ice is foundering slowly
the ice is turning to water
The wa
ter rushes over all,
cities crash in the mighty wave;
the final man is very small,
plunging in for his final bathe
This is the ending of the beginning
this is the beginning of the end,
middle of the middle, mid-point, end and start:
the first peak rises, forces the waves apart
Far off, the ice is now re-forming:
poles are fixed once more,
water's receding, like death-blood
And when the water falls again,
all is dead and nobody lives
And then he said:
'Every step appears to be the unavoidable consequence of the
preceding one, and in the end there beckons more and more
clearly total annihilation!'
This is the ending of the beginning
this, the beginning of the end
And when the water falls again
all is dead and nobody lives