Breeze from Summer Breeze by Moon Sunn Moon

And Earth befouled the universe, for the life that was upon it was living
and dying in increasing rejection of the truth. And man was muddled,
and knew dimly that he was in error, and that sin attended his footsteps,
and that his heart contained no purity. And man was sorry for himself,
and berated himself, and cursed the Gods, and stumbled in the twilight
of the dimming of the truth. And he knew a little of the nature of what
had happened, but not enough to climb back. And man was dying,
and his misery was abject and his failure complete.

A-Whispering in the woods while walking away, a ways, always, while I wonder, wonder what we were