Early years of humankind, Slaughter of unbecoming, Through the big dark lake of Ib That humans feel proud of! At the celebration That the years showed thousand, Avenge of the Ancients Banished the thousands. Under the crescent moon They rised their shadows to the walls, to the towers. Surrounded like a shroud. That humans realized too late. Horror at faces, insanity at words And the silhouettes, under the lake! Neither a human nor a nomad, Can see the old wonders. No more! At the celebration That the years showed thousand, And the doom Came to Sarnath.