No one would have believedIn the last years of the nineteenth centuryThat human affairs were being watchedFrom the timeless worlds of spaceNo one could have dreamed that we were being scrutinizedAs someone with a microscope studies creaturesThat swarm and multiply in a drop of waterFew men even considered the possibility of life on other planetsAnd yet, across the gulf of spaceMinds immeasurably superior to oursRegarded this Earth with envious eyesAnd slowly and surely, they drew their plans against us