A Diversity of Creatures
As Easy as ABC
MacDonough's Song
Friendly Brook
The Land
In the Same Boat
'Helen all Alone'
The Honours of War
The Children
The Dog Hervey
The Comforters
The Village that Voted the Earth was Flat
The Press
In the Presence
Jobson's Amen
Regulus
A Translation
The Edge of the Evening
Rebirth
The Horse Marines
The Legend of Mirth
'My Son's Wife'
The Floods
The Fabulists
The Vortex
The Song of Seven Cities
'Swept and Garnished'
Mary Postgate
The Beginnings
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icago--innocent, contented little Chicago--was singing it aloud to the infernal tune that carried riot, pestilence and lunacy round our Planet a few generations ago!
'Once there was The People--Terror gave it birth; Once there was The People, and it made a hell of earth!'
(Then the stamp and pause):
'Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, oh, ye slain! Once there was The People--it shall never be again!'
The levellers thrust in savagely against the ruins as the song renewed itself again, again and again, louder than the crash of the melting walls.
De Forest frowned.
'I don't like that,' he said. 'They've broken back to the Old Days! They'll be killing somebody soon. I think we'd better divert 'em, Arnott.'
'Ay, ay, sir.' Arnott's hand went to his cap, and we heard the hull of the Victor Pirolo ring to the command: 'Lamps! Both watches stand by! Lamps! Lamps! Lamps!'
'Keep still!' Takahira whispered to me. 'Blinkers, please, quartermaster.'