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 [bad word] back into the soil.

After a million years of shining sanity, 
They could hardly have understood what power was destroying them