Richard Furness: Will he spare a poor bird when he slaughters his kind?

==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war Richard Furness: Selections on war ==== Richard FurnessOn Frighting a Bird From Its Nest Little affectionate! why dost thou fly?No hard-hearted truant – no danger was nigh –To break up thy nest, or to murder thy young,And turn into mourning the […]