Es Atu

When earth was first sundered from heaven,

When God first rejoiced in the skies,

When evil announced its intention

With death to imprison all life:

Then we were born from the clouds and rain,

We were born for limitless pain,

We were born for tears and lies,

And made to wonder all our days,

And made to wonder all the days.

—Opening chorus of Sossian’s Of the Lost Earth