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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;
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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