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Town councilor Admiral Chiles Penrose Fitzgerald
Speechify , that those not yet in uniform , be shamed
He came up a wiz of an idea , he called upon the woman folk , including girls
Especially teenage , some still at school
When they saw a man , not yet in uniform , a white feather priest in to hand
Then to demand why they were shirking their duty? call them cowherds to their face!
The shaming , the given of white feathers taken up by The Daley Mail
It spread the use of white feathers up , down , across the land
Like the net to day , it spread all over the British Empire!
No a few underage , to young to join up , shamed to volunteer
'Tis , not known how many , recon to be in the thousands
Many of 'em died , just how many no one will ever know
Shamed in to going of to war
Fizgerald , was proud of himself , all the same
I wonder how the fair sex felt , when those they gave white feathers to
Died , or maiden , minds scrambled by what they had seen
I can only hope , they lived in shame , for what they did
Ken D Williams
The Dyslexic Wordsmith
Poetry by ken d williams
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Written on 2014-10-24 at 13:06
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WHITE FEATHER (WORLD WAR ONE)
In good old Folkestone town down the Kent coast wayTown councilor Admiral Chiles Penrose Fitzgerald
Speechify , that those not yet in uniform , be shamed
He came up a wiz of an idea , he called upon the woman folk , including girls
Especially teenage , some still at school
When they saw a man , not yet in uniform , a white feather priest in to hand
Then to demand why they were shirking their duty? call them cowherds to their face!
The shaming , the given of white feathers taken up by The Daley Mail
It spread the use of white feathers up , down , across the land
Like the net to day , it spread all over the British Empire!
No a few underage , to young to join up , shamed to volunteer
'Tis , not known how many , recon to be in the thousands
Many of 'em died , just how many no one will ever know
Shamed in to going of to war
Fizgerald , was proud of himself , all the same
I wonder how the fair sex felt , when those they gave white feathers to
Died , or maiden , minds scrambled by what they had seen
I can only hope , they lived in shame , for what they did
Ken D Williams
The Dyslexic Wordsmith
Poetry by ken d williams
Read 654 times
Written on 2014-10-24 at 13:06
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