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<i>In WWI, for the first time ever,</i>
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<i>nations combined to fight nations,</i>
<i>using the crude weapons of the day.</i>
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<i>WWII involved every continent.</i>
<i>Science provided new tools of war.</i>
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<i>These reached an unparalleled peak</i>
<i>in their capacity for destruction.</i>
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<i>Now, fought with the</i>
<i>terrible weapons of super-science,</i>
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<i>menacing every creature</i>
<i>on Earth, comes...</i>
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<i>No one would have believed,</i>
<i>in the middle of the 20th century,</i>
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<i>human affairs were being closely</i>
<i>watched by a greater intelligence.</i>
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<i>Yet, across the gulf of space,</i>
<i>on the planet Mars,</i>
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<i>intellects vast and unsympathetic</i>
<i>regarded our Earth enviously,</i>
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<i>slowly and surely</i>
<i>drawing their plans against us.</i>
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<i>Mars is more than 140 million miles</i>
<i>from the sun.</i>
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<i>For centuries it has been</i>
<i>in the last stages of exhaustion.</i>
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<i>At night, temperatures drop</i>
<i>far below zero, even at its equator.</i>
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<i>The inhabitants of this dying planet</i>
<i>looked across space with instruments</i>
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<i>of which</i>
<i>we have scarcely dreamed,</i>
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<i>searching for another world</i>
<i>to which they could migrate.</i>
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<i>They could not go to Pluto,</i>
<i>outermost of all planets,</i>
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<i>and so cold that its atmosphere</i>
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