“They held each other close and turned their backs upon the end.The hills that split asunder and the black that ate the skies;The flames that shot so high and hot that even dragons burned;Would never be the final sights that fell upon their eyes.A fly upon a wall, the waves the sea wind whipped and churned —The city of a thousand years, and all that men had learned;The Doom consumed it all alike, and neither of them turned”