Excerpt from Birds and the War

"Think, every morning when the sun peeps through
The dim, leaf-latticed windows of the grove,
How jubilant the happy birds renew
Their old, melodious madrigals of love!
And when you think of this, remember too
'Tis always morning somewhere, and above
The awakening continents, from shore to shore,
Somewhere the birds are singing evermore,

"You slay them all I and wherefore? for the gain
Of a scant handful more or less of wheat,
Or rye, or barley, or some other grain.
Scratched up at random by industrious feet,
Searching for worm or weevil after rain I
Or a few cherries, that are not so sweet
As are the songs these uninvited guests
Sing at their feast with comfortable breasts.

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