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<i>In WWl, for the first time ever, </i>
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<i>nations combined to fjght nations, </i>
<i>using the crude weapons of the day. </i>
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<i>WWll 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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