<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">The Nightingales of Flanders</h1><p class="byline"> GRACE HAZARD CONKLING <br xmlns:exist="http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"/><span class="smallcaps">in Everybody's Magazine</span></p><p>Permission to reproduce in this book.</p><p class="epigraph"></p><p xmlns:exist="http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">"Le rossignol n'est pas mobilise."</p><p>--A French Soldier</p><div class="stanza"><p class="line">THE nightingales of Flanders,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">They had not gone to war;</p><p class="line">A soldier heard them singing</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Where they had sung before.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">The earth was torn and quaking,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">The sky about to fall;</p><p class="line">The nightingales of Flanders,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">They minded not at all.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">At intervals we heard them</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Between the guns, he said,</p><p class="line">Making a thrilling music</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Above the listening dead.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Of woodland and of orchard</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">And roadside tree bereft,</p><p class="line">The nightingales of Flanders</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Were singing "France is left!" </p></div></body></html> · Great War