Dead London - Part 1

There were a dozen dead bodies in the Euston road
 Their outline softened by the black dust
 All was still, houses locked and empty
 Shops closed but looters had helped themselves to wine and food
 And outside a jewellers some gold chains and a watch were scattered on the pavement
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 Ulla!
 I stopped, staring toward the sound
 It seemed as if that mighty desert of houses had found a voice for it's fear and solitude
 Ulla!
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 The desolating cry worked upon my mind
 The wailing took possession of me
 I was intensely weary, footsore, hungry and thirsty
 Why was I wandering alone in this city of the dead?
 Why was I alive, when London in state in it's black shroud?
 I felt intolerably lonely, drifting from street to empty street
 Drawn inexorably towards that cry
 Ulla!
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 I saw, over the trees on Primrose hill
 The Fighting Machine from which the howling came
 I crossed Regents canal
 There stood a second machine, upright, but a still as the first
 Ulla!
 Abruptly, the sound ceased
 Suddenly, the desolation, the solitude, became unendurable
 While that voice sounded, London had still seemed alive
 Now, suddenly, there was a change
 The passing of something and all that remained was this gaunt quite
 I looked up and saw a third machine
 It was erect and motionless, like the others
 An insane resolve possessed me
 I would give my life to the Martians, here and now
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 I marched recklessly towards the titan
 And saw that a multitude of black birds was circling and clustering about the hood
 I began running along the road, I felt no fear
 Only a wild trembling exultation, as I ran up the hill towards the motionless monster
 Out of the hood hung red shreds, at which the hungry birds now pecked and tore
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 I scrambled up to the crest of Primrose Hill
 And the Martians camp was below me
 A mighty space it was, and scattered about it, in their overturned machines, were the Martians Dead!
 Slain after all mans devices had failed, by the humblest things on Earth
 Bacteria, Minute, invisible bacteria!
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 Directly the invaders arrived and drank and fed
 Our microscopic allies attacked them
 From that moment they were doomed!