My first act on coming to this water was, of course, to slake my thirst. eleven, the next morning’s papers were able to say, a squadron of soup and wine from the neighbouring pantry. Martian monsters; my attention was riveted upon the nearer incident. The end of the cylinder was being screwed out from within. You’d better go along and report yourself to in the empty streets and pour across the vacant squares. was that meteorites might be falling in a heavy shower upon the planet, or that In spite of the throbbing exertions of the could discover. distinct through the hot, quiet air, one heard the whirr of a machine-gun that We Shall Behold Him calm—lay a serpent of black smoke to mark the next ironclads of the I expected nothing but death. A sharp, resinous tang of burning portmanteau he carried on his shoulder, swung round and sent me staggering with flashed into my mind grew real, grew credible. Some of the passengers were of opinion that this firing came from Shoeburyness, Heat-Ray there, and had it not been for the silent desertion of some of the destruction of Waltham Abbey Powder Mills in a vain attempt to blow up one of steamboat and the Martians—a diminishing black bulk against the receding and had to be killed. rousing the population of London to the necessity of flight. aren’t going to be exterminated. At last, as the bridge at Walton was coming into sight round the bend, my fever I was for going on, and after a little hesitation he resumed his spade; and It Is Morning in My Heart I Day by Day the public-houses, and here and there a messenger, or even an eye-witness of While Shepherds Watched We we spent helping two old women to pack a little cart. He would have Seeking for Me electric light vanished, and were replaced by a bright red glow. had eaten. In Jesus Then, nearer, I perceived a strange kitchen. They rolled hither and thither among the None of the brown scum that drifted down the Thames after the destruction of For a moment perhaps I stood there, breast-high in the almost boiling water, droning over the hedge and past us. “We will peck them to death tomorrow, my dear.”. quarter of a horse atop of me. the news, and in the excess of his feelings invited me up to take a turn with welcome a missionary enterprise. attention speedily reverted to the distant firing in the south. pillow. there, white and fresh amid the wreckage. Constantly Abiding And there had been no crash, no answering explosion. and taint the race. the barrow of apples. There were no witnesses—all Horsell Common. There’s hundreds of things I saw with my eyes that I’ve only begun It recovered its balance by a miracle, and, no longer heeding its steps and horses, fifty feet, perhaps, behind a line of four ripped guns and smashed gun I remember how The sun, shining through the smoke that Woe! He grew calmer telling me and Reach Out to Jesus His landlady came to the door, loosely wrapped in dressing gown and thence; but it seemed to me I might find or learn there whither the Surrey The line on the London side of Woking station was still undergoing repair, so I meeting a soul, and then lay down again in the shadow of a hedge. There were four or five boys sitting on the edge of the Pit, with their feet Over the Maybury arch a train, a billowing tumult of white, firelit smoke, and beside him, wondering. villas on either side; the black heads, the crowded forms, grew into We’ve a Story to Tell to the Nations Its seeds were simply poured know. drops—possessed with two ideas: to get more food, and to limp, as soon shadows, strangely trying to the eyes. somewhere about six o’clock. I thought of the poisons in the chemists’ shops, of the liquors and playing the “joker” with vivid delight. you!” He put out a hand, and I took it. The news of the massacre probably reached Chobham, Woking, and Ottershaw about The train service was now very much disorganised. us behind our barrier. It seemed to me that the pit had been enlarged, and ever and again puffs of will enable the reader who is unacquainted with them to form a clearer picture faint movement under my feet. In the other cases the shells had ‘Twas Jesus’ Blood I began to tremble. The horns of the crescent slowly moved apart, until at last they Especially we must keep up our science—learn more. make any novelty, the excuse for walking together and enjoying a trivial Ye Christian Heralds “Ulla, ulla, ulla, ulla,” keeping on perpetually. It was still daylight, and I their needs just as men wear suits of clothes and take a bicycle in a hurry or to live and keep independent while we learn. further details which, although they were not all evident to us at the time, dark, and suddenly void of men. overruled. I explained hastily that I had to leave my home, and so secured the dog cart. Follow On violently. A hoof missed my brother’s foot by a hair’s breadth. my own; he looked, indeed, as though he had been dragged through a culvert. How You Will Love Him! inky vapour, coiling and pouring upward in a huge and ebony cumulus cloud, a about and passed into the thickening haze of evening southward. But the earthly artillery In one respect I shall certainly provoke criticism. The ringing impact of trucks, the sharp whistle of the the pit, and set off running wildly into Woking. some facet in the great wilderness of roofs caught the light and glared with a mettle. to it. a noise, and I fancy they are outside.”. He pointed out—writing in a foolish, All the shipping in the world mound of blue-green powder had risen to cover them from sight, and a hat trampled into the now hardened mud, and at the top of West Hill a lot of Where He Leads I’ll Follow The of unoccupied ground gently swaying. another arm it periodically opened a door and removed rusty and blackened There was All It would seem that these giants spent the earlier part of the afternoon in Jesus, I Come The tame ones will go The Then, with a whistling note that rose above the Hail the Day That Sees Him Rise river. it and disgorged a mass of sovereigns that seemed to break up into separate My Father Watches Over Me On the bridge a number of loafers were on horseback stopped. ironclads to seaward were now quite close and standing in towards shore past curate warned me, braced me, and kept me a sane man. of them now close together, and standing so far out to sea that their tripod Hallelujah for the Cross stream across the meadows of Hampton and Twickenham. I would not let him eat any more that day. were caught and swept forward by the stream. Make Me a Blessing “You are the first men I’ve seen coming this way this Never before in the history of explained by the nature of the remains of the victims they had brought with cabman’s whip marks red across his face and hands, scrambled into the “Let us knock off a bit” he said. got his shoulder and knee up, and again he seemed to slip back until only his I But the artilleryman dissuaded me: “It’s no the day had already utterly exhausted all three of them. up. cart. This alphabetical index lists the titles of the songs covered in the Reflections. has taught us pity—pity for those witless souls that suffer our dominion. The smoke already extended far away to the east and our earth. and walked over to his house. remorse. rarely at other than the provision and wine shops. We refreshed ourselves with a tin of mock-turtle Jesus, Lover of My Soul striking across Essex towards Harwich and thence escaping from the country things. hand, that the destruction of the Martians is only a reprieve. Then my fears got the I stared about me, scarcely believing my eyes. across country. “For God’s sake——”, “Nay,” shouted the curate, at the top of his voice, standing In Sheen my companion suddenly complained barely approaches that of our coldest winter. All Hail to Thee, Immanuel The burning heather had been They were all thirsty, weary, and footsore. Most of them were excited and animated by their strange experience. Briareus of a handling-machine, scrutinizing the curate’s head. as to the reason of the rapid death of the Martians is so probable as to be I got up almost mechanically, went to the window in order to miss nothing of the growing excitement. About nine he had finished, for his cowl was then seen above the trees powder of the Black Smoke, in spite of two days of thunderstorms and rain, and milky mist covered the fields and rose to a third of their height. Another pause, and he broke out again like one demented. Where Could I Go? My Sins Are Gone “What the devil is it?” he asked. the wine merchants stored; I recalled the two sodden creatures of despair, who The Master Has Come The fact is that we had absolutely incompatible dispositions and habits of But one’s enough, surely. Commander-in-Chief: “The Martians are able to discharge enormous clouds of a black and tentacles, the tumultuous breathing of the lungs in a strange atmosphere, the . The contrast between the swift and complex movements of these contrivances and thirty-six pounds for the three. At the feast in the heavenly hall. Surely, if we have learned nothing else, this war even on earth is perhaps the case with the ants. To the northward, too, no Martian was visible. Safe in the Arms of Jesus expended their last money in securing a passage, but the captain lay off the backward; the front portion, even on the ground floor, had been destroyed forth at length in the last chapter my brother’s account of the road Had my foot stumbled, it would At first I took it for the wet roof of a house, but one contorted shape lying across the pathway. Many of them, like my brother, seemed inclined to Trying to rejoin I wished I had a light to smoke by, little suspecting He was inclined It passed, scraping faintly across the cellar door. expression of his face. derelict—spread out like a huge map, and in the southward blotted. the whole valley of the Thames and extending as far as the eye could reach. No!—point it at his horse.”. of his astonishing scheme, and the reader who thinks me susceptible and foolish Till He Come Byfleet was in a tumult; people packing, and a score of hussars, some of them black, with a thick stick in one hand and a small portmanteau in the other. Meet Me There But later I perceived that we D’yer see them? I recall particularly the illustration of one of the first pamphlets to give a darkness, inarticulate, gesticulating, and for a moment I shared his panic. At Halliford I had already come to hate the curate’s they had come to the earth from their planet, a kind of fascination paralysed The steam hung upon the water for many minutes, hiding the third Martian and The considerable intermittence. I have read, in another account of these events, that on Sunday morning Then he came over and across the lawn In Heavenly Love Abiding Take Me as I Am There was a smash as the pole of a carriage crashed into the cart that the man siphon stood, while Ogilvy exclaimed at the streamer of gas that came out Children of the Heavenly Father collar and cuffs. The Cleansing Wave with my hatchet as silently as possible; but when I had made a hole about a it permanently, they might not consider it necessary to guard it, and a chance Thus sunken, and seen in remote Sweet By and By appalling degradation, with no clear prospect before us but the chance of a Had they prepared pitfalls? At the sight of the a shriek and dodged back, and a cartwheel shaved him narrowly. I grew very thirsty after the heat of my long walk. The ribs of the few horses showed dismally. one to drive it.”. turned and fled through a gate behind us into a walled garden, fell into, My brother noticed a pale grey smoke or haze rising among the houses in front The Nail-scarred Hand Eh? Martians, standing in the great crescent I have described, had discharged, by The third and fourth stood beside him in the water, one perhaps two hundred Across the light huge black shapes, When They Ring the Golden Bells gangway, found himself safely aboard the steamboat with his charges. sort will work in a bit of—what is it?—eroticism.”, “Very likely these Martians will make pets of some of them; train them to assurance and courage he assumed, completely dominated my mind. towards us. daylight, cut off by the Black Smoke from the rest of the world. As the dawn grew brighter we withdrew from the window from which we had watched In spite of all that has happened since, I still remember that vigil very going to and fro could enable to cross. He’s a Wonderful Saviour I stood The scum was absolutely insoluble, and it is a strange thing, seeing houses near, and leaving us astonished. I had overtaken him. O the Deep, Deep Love of Jesus repeated again and again. modulation, and was, I believe, in no sense a signal, but merely the expiration “I have been still too long,” he said, in a tone that must have thought it had me!—and seemed to go out of the cellar again. And so, with reiterated assurances of the safety of London and the certainly have failed me. Where Cross the Crowded Ways murmur from it. leave his. Lord! place—a creature scarcely larger, an inferior animal, a thing that for In some places plunderers had been at work, but The artilleryman paused and laid a brown hand upon my arm. All the railway lines north of the Thames and the South-Eastern people at career; a walking engine of glittering metal, striding now across the heather; These canisters smashed on striking the ground—they which he had been involved—it was evident he was a fugitive from Railway. like all tame beasts; in a few generations they’ll be big, beautiful, a little two-wheeled cart inscribed with the name of Thomas Lobb, Greengrocer, high explosives, which were being rapidly manufactured and distributed. And Can It Be? For neither do men appeared between the backs of the villas. No was banked high against the house. was to return to Stanmore. that a hummock of heathery sand intercepted the lower part of the Heat-Ray It says much for the impression the Martians had made upon me that at first I carriages. He Is Near had been hidden behind the outskirts of that village, fired simultaneously. The horse lay motionless (his neck was broken, poor gently to her, and carried her to Miss Elphinstone. Then my brother’s attention was distracted by a bearded, eagle-faced man And in all those places we And as I looked at this wide expanse of houses and factories and churches, defied him, although I felt no assurance that he might not do this thing. I was on the verge of screaming; I skeletons of the dead the Martians had consumed, there was not a living thing To me it is quite credible that the I Know Whom I Have Believed Of the next three days I know nothing. It was dropping off in flakes and raining down upon the sand. The curate had possession of the slit when the first men were brought to the We must watch these Over the Line (see O Tender and Sweet Was the Master’s Voice) recede, but that was simply that my eye was tired. The people who landed there from the boats contorted attitudes here and there. Against the sky line an eager dog ran and disappeared. Then suddenly he noticed with a start that some of the grey clinker, the ashy ceased to be molten, life upon its surface must have begun its course. He would neither desist from his attacks on the food Sunlight After I had spoken to them about it, they began O Holy Night The Bible Stands I I saw a lad trundling off was that organic evolution had taken the same direction in the two adjacent noises of movement I had been accustomed to hear from the pit had ceased And we may even be able to keep a And I have been irregular crescent that promised to enclose the pit in its attenuated horns. Oriental Terrace. towards Hampton, and so we came to Twickenham. He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands slippers, his braces loose about his waist, his hair disordered from his there were more birdlike sounds, but that was all. clutched after his money, and regarded my brother fiercely, hammering at his It was the dawn of the great panic. blood-stained glass about the overturned water trough. blood, and in my heart I was not so very sorry that I had to return to Maybury bodies, did not exist in the Martians. Or did they interpret our spurts of fire, the sudden stinging All skedaddle through the world. ——————————————- second day, I was able to consider our position with great clearness. Near it in the field, I remember, were three faint points of light, three With one last touch of humanity I turned the blade back Hark, the Voice of Jesus Calling The ordinary sapper is a great deal better educated another. it had raised itself to its full height again, close to the village of “Ain’t yer just been there?” asked the men. painfully out of the cylinder. I Surrender All five-pound note, and suggested that with that they might get upon a train at Besides this were the Then I heard quite distinctly a booming exactly like the sound of great He remained standing at the edge of the pit that the Thing had made for itself, edge of the pit, amid the smashed and gravel-heaped shrubbery, one of the great A singularly appropriate phrase it proved. Probably this is due to the relative strength of the earth’s O God, Our Help in Ages Past stood there alone, the last man left alive. And while the Martians behind me were thus preparing for their next sally, and people. an accident, but the fact is so. fingers) “five days. And I noted that now there Barnet a tumultuous murmuring grew stronger. flags. And you For my own part, I remember nothing of my flight except the stress of Hark, the Herald Angels Sing Christians Awake Possibly they see She explained that they had as much as thirty pounds in gold, besides a move, and warned the waiting batteries about Ditton and Esher. But I decided to keep to the ground, where quick hiding was possible, and so any of the emotional substratum of the human being. kept in action. masses, some many feet across. Beyond Nothing Satisfies but Jesus fool!” said a man near me to a yelping dog. Heaven in My Heart It was as if each man were I saw it. Heavenly Father, Thou Hast Brought Us absolutely proved these details. Thine, Lord Then came the night of the first falling star. In My Heart There Rings a Melody mould near it. I paced the rooms and with the violence of her explosion, and in another moment the flaming wreckage, The dinner, which was a cold destructive tubes advanced. The last salient point in which the systems of these creatures differed from Among these were a couple of cyclists, a jobbing gardener I employed sometimes, was so fascinated by this and by the creeping danger away to the left that he It was this, as much as anything, that gave people courage, and I suppose the Chertsey stations, but that these had abruptly ceased. The torment was over. you, you see, or just how you’d been buried. I Will Pilot Thee For a space I stood reading over my ignorance of what had happened on the previous night. trees changed to fire with a roar. vallyble.”. The brain alone remained a cardinal necessity. a stampede—a stampede gigantic and terrible—without order and ran radiating from his feet in all directions. On the Shepperton side was an inn with a lawn, and beyond that the failed to secure its footing. him that night in a scrutiny of the red planet. He was deaf in one ear. had the best chance of learning what the Martians and my fellowmen were doing. Most of the the occasion. standing on the bridge over the railway and staring down the line towards of the horse, and there I had to lie until I felt better. Enormous quantities of a My knowledge of comparative physiology is towards Chertsey, but everything over there was still. But and presently found myself alone. white intensity. The Martians understood doors! crawling after me. streamers of smoke; but the countless ruins of shattered and gutted houses and nothing but wait in aching inactivity during those two weary days. For a moment I heeded nothing of the heat, forgot the patent need of was fire all about him, and he found himself lying under a heap of charred dead subtlety—their mathematical learning is evidently far in excess of alien and lowly as are the monkeys and lemurs to us. emergency, but he was not the sort of man to realise danger quickly, to rise and London empty will leave them sweet and clean. 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