is old
friend died, the Last of the Race remembered his Humanity. He bent
down, kissed the livid lips, carefully and tearfully closed the filmed
red eyes. He even tried to scratch a grave with his long finger-nails,
but soon despaired. He then went away, plodding as fast as he could
hobble, weeping silently, afraid of the Dead. In the afternoon he came
to a vast city, where many corpses lay; and about nightfall, when the
stars were shining, he came to a massive half-ruined Dome that had
been used for the worship of some God. Entering, he tottered towards
the altar, which still stood, half-buried in stone-dust and flakes;
and reaching up to a great bronze Crucifix that stood upon it, with
his dying strength he clasped to his arms the Emblem of our Sorrow.

* * * * *

I saw the vast Halls and Palaces of men falling in slowly, decaying,
crumbling, destroyed by nothing but the rains and the touch of Time.
And looking again I saw wandering over and above the ruins, moving
curiously about, myriads of brown, hairy, repulsive little apes.

One of them was building a fire with sticks.

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