'Le rossignol n'est pas mobilise.' <br />--A French Soldier <br /> <br /> <br />THE nightingales of Flanders, <br />They had not gone to war; <br />A soldier heard them singing <br />Where they had sung before. <br /> <br />The earth was torn and quaking, <br />The sky about to fall; <br />The nightingales of Flanders, <br />They minded not at all. <br /> <br />At intervals we heard them <br />Between the guns, he said, <br />Making a thrilling music <br />Above the listening dead. <br /> <br />Of woodland and of orchard <br />And roadside tree bereft, <br />The nightingales of Flanders <br />Were singing 'France is left!'<br /><br />Grace Hazard Conkling<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-nightingale-of-flanders/
