For three days I fought my way along roads packed with refugees, the homeless, burdened with boxes and bundles containing
their valuables. All that was of value to me was in London. By the time I reached their little red brick house, Carrie and
her father were gone.
Forever Autumn
Journalist
The summer sun is fading
as the year grows old,
And darker days are drawing near,
The winter winds will be much colder,
Now you're not here.
I watch the birds fly south across the autumn sky
And one by one they disappear,
I wish that
I was flying with them
Now you're not here.
Like the sun through the trees you came to love me,
Like a leaf on a
breeze you blew away...
Through autumn's golden gown we used to kick our way,
You always loved this time of year
Those
fallen leaves lie undisturbed now
Cause you're not here
Cause you're not here
Cause you're not here
Fire
suddenly leapt from house to house. The population panicked and ran, and I was swept along with them, aimless and lost without
Carrie. Finally, I headed eastward for the ocean and my only hope of survival: a boat out of England.
Journalist
Like the sun through the
trees you came to love me,
Like a leaf on the breeze you blew away...
A gentle rain falls softly on my weary eyes
As if to hide a lonely tear
My life will be forever
autumn,
Cause you're not here
Cause you're not here
Cause you're not here
As I hastened through
Covent Garden, Blackfriars and Billingsgate, more and more people joined the painful exodus. Sad, weary women, their children
stumbling in the street with tears, their men bitter and angry, the rich rubbing shoulders with beggars and outcasts. Dogs
snarled and whined, the horse's bits were covered with foam, and here and there were wounded soldiers, as helpless as the
rest.
We saw tripods wading up the Thames, cutting through bridges as though they were paper. Waterloo bridge, Westminster
bridge, one appeared above Big Ben.
Never before in the history of the world, had such a mass of human beings moved and suffered
together. This was no disciplined march, it was a stampede, without order and without a goal, six million people unarmed and
unprovisioned driving headlong. It was the beginning of the rout of civilization, of the massacre of mankind.
A vast crowd
buffeted me towards the already packed steamer. I looked up enviously at those safely on board... straight into the eyes of
my beloved Carrie. At sight of me she began to fight her way along the packed deck to the gangplank. At that very moment,
it was raised, and I caught a last glimpse of her despairing face as the crowd swept me away from her.
Journalist
Like the sun through the
trees you came to love me,
Like a leaf on a breeze you blew away...
Through autumn's golden gown we used to kick our way
You always loved this time of year
Those
fallen leaves lie undisturbed now
Cause you're not here
Cause you're not here
Cause you're not here
