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TO SPARROWS FIGHTING by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES

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First Line: STOP, FEATHERED BULLIES!
Last Line: OF ANGER, LIKE THE GREAT.
Subject(s): SPARROWS;
Stop, feathered bullies!
Peace, angry birds;
You common Sparrows that,
For a few words,
Roll fighting in wet mud,
To shed each other's blood.

Look at those Linnets, they
Like ladies sing;
See how those Swallows, too,
Play on the wing;
All other birds close by
Are gentle, clean and shy.

And yet maybe your life's
As sweet as theirs;
The common poor that fight
Live not for years
In one long frozen state
Of anger, like the great.



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