Songbirds
Posted By Randy on August 10, 2024
Piper Bill Millin was the personal piper to Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat, and led Lovat’s commando brigade into the surf of Sword Beach on D-Day. While the Crow is unidentified, this statue of Bill Millin stands in Caen, France (Source: The Heroic ‘Mad Bagpiper’ Of D-Day)
Songbirds
By LFM
When you think of “songbirds” and sweet melodies they make,
What you’re about to learn will seem a terrible mistake,
But Truth is Truth, however harsh and earthy be the song,
Uncaring of opinions where things do and don’t belong.
I speak, of course, of Crows, long may they flock and croak and caw!
A perfect child of Nature and devoid of any flaw!
Yet their overt musicality to many counts as din,
Such is rudely superficial as their Music lies within!
As one who’s called to Bagpipes may attract unfair disdain,
And bitter enmity from those who’d think him better slain,
There’s yet a brilliant number who strong take the other lean,
For Pipes and Crows, but Love and Hate, with nothing in between.
The Crow’s sweet caw, the Piper’s skirl, hear now this call to arms,
These serve a good far greater than mere causing of alarms,
For primal heart and spirit lies behind what comes to ear,
And lesson learned that many things are not as they appear.
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