Mythic Overture

Verse 1

Hear the voice of the Muse! I invoke thee which hovered
In time before time on the face of the waters;
Attend to her words, ye assembled herein!
Thus spake she of old to the poets and fathers.

In the time long ago, when the gods did the work
(An energy transfer, as Kelvin attests),
The Lord of Sky Anu stretched forth his right hand
And with labours for gods humankind he oppress'd

Verse 2

And Pkharmat the Forethinker looked on man's plight,
That a system closed off was the realm of the gods;
No transfer of heat could occur therebetwixt,
So with heavenly fire did the trickster abscond.

The flame of divinity gave he to man
And their eyes came alight with the wisdom they'd sought;
No longer in ignorance, nor in their childhood:
The door to the rose-garden never unlocked.

Verse 3

And the whole world groaned, for man was but clay,
Ill-suited the ultimate state to withstand;
To entropy always the Earth will incline
Eventual balance, but doom for the land.

And entropy reigned in the world, I repeat!
Though Adonai once had Leviathan slain;
The coldness of death! 'tis the thermodynamic
Equilibrium the world shall someday attain.