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The Eve of the War
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No one would have believed
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In the last years of the nineteenth century
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That human affairs were being watched
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From the timeless worlds of space
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No one could have dreamed
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We were being scrutinized
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As someone with a microscope
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Studies creatures that swarm
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And multiply in a drop of water
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Few men even considered
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The possibility of life on other planets
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And yet, across the gulf of space
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Minds immeasurably superior to ours
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Regarded this Earth with envious eyes
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And slowly and surely
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They drew their plans against us
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At midnight on the twelfth of August
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A huge mass of luminous gas erupted
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From Mars and sped towards Earth
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Across two hundred million miles of void
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Invisibly hurtling towards us
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Came the first of the missiles
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That were to bring so much calamity to Earth
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As I watched there was another jet of gas
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It was another missile, starting on its way
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And that's how it was for the next ten nights
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A flare, spurting out from Mars
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Bright, green, drawing a green mist behind it
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A beautiful, but somehow disturbing sight
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Ogilvy, the astronomer
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Assured me we were in no danger
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He was convinced there could be no
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Living thing on that remote, forbidding planet
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"The chances of anything coming
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From Mars are a million to one", he said
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"The chances of anything coming
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From Mars are a million to one, but still they come!"
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Then came the night
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The first missile approached Earth
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It was thought to be an ordinary falling star
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But next day there was a huge crater
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In the middle of the Common
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And Ogilvy came to examine what lay there
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A cylinder, thirty yards across
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Glowing hot with faint sounds
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Of movement coming from within
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Suddenly the top began moving
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Rotating, unscrewing
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And Ogilvy feared there was a man inside
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Trying to escape
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He rushed to the cylinder
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But the intense heat stopped him
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Before he could burn himself on the metal
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"The chances of anything coming
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From Mars are a million to one", he said
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"The chances of anything coming
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From Mars are a million to one, but still they come!"
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"Yes, the chances of anything coming
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From Mars are a million to one", he said
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"The chances of anything coming
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From Mars are a million to one, but still they come!"
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It seems totally incredible to me
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Now that everyone spent that evening
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As though it were just like any other
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From the railway station came the sound of
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Shunting trains, ringing and rumbling
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Softened almost into melody by the distance
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It all seemed so safe and tranquil
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