They're just a bunch of

scaremongers

Raising alarm wherever they can

And drinking their fill all the while

fern fronds and clouds

the world is that cold and dark

But before they know it

These fellows

Rot all on their own

Are washed away by the rains all on

their own

Leaving nothing but silent blue

ferns

Then some lucid geologist will

come along and record this

As the Carboniferous Age of man

Translated by Roger Pulvers