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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WAR CANARY, by ETHEL A. FRAME
First Line: Caged fragileness of golden song
Last Line: Your muted song has told of the approach of yellow mist.
Subject(s): Birds; Death; War; Dead, The
First Line: Caged fragileness of golden song
Last Line: Your muted song has told of the approach of yellow mist.
Subject(s): Birds; Death; War; Dead, The
Caged fragileness of golden song,
The whining shell, a war day's long
Shrieking dirge, heeds not your chanterelle.
The groan of wounded courage
Voices hell.
Your sweet-toned pearls of rhapsody
Are threaded on a string of pain
Across a sky of hate. The reign
Of Death demands the ultimate.
And suddenly your silence flows to death's untimely tryst.
Your muted song has told of the approach of yellow mist.
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