In the grey beginning of times In steaming fens of newmade earth Formless and loathsome mass Reposed amid slime and vapors It sloughed from its oozy sides In a slow ceaseless wave The amoebic forms that were The archetypes of earthly life Disgusting and loathsome Swarming formless source The beginning and the end Of all things It was before cthulhu and yog-sothoth It was before hastur and tsathoggua It was before yithians and elders It was before all the things And all the forms of life as it told Shall go back at last Through the great circle of time To ubbo-sathla