Before the cylinder fell

There was a generel persusion

To al the deep of space

No life existed

Beyond the petty surface

Of our own minute sphere

We know now

That in the early years of the twentieth century

This world was being watched closely

By intelligences greater than man's

Across an immense ethereal gulf

Minds that are to our mind as our minds are to the beasts in the jungle

Interlands, vast, cruel, unsympathetic