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The drone of birds in war offensive

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“When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.” - Winston Churchill 
“The bird war, the bird attack—call it what you like. They’re amassing out there someplace and they’ll be back.” - Panic-stricken line from Hitchcock’s 1963 film 'The Birds' - turning ordinary fliers into combatants. 
“My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity... All a poet can do today is warn.” - Wilfred Owen, preface to his war poems
“The larks, still bravely singing, fly / Scarce heard amid the guns below.” - John McCrae, In Flanders Fields
"Drones are transforming modern warfare, today and forever more - the mores the pity" - Poet quoting the drone of war news.

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----------------------------------------- The drone of birds in war offensive hear the drone of war pity the birds, amassing way out there someplace, they'll be back in droves to drone the piteous drum of war

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