Show birds and cannon A nightingale doing its ita ambitious best to lift its song above the roar of 0 a battery of heavy guns so astonished astonish pd a british soldier at the front in north ern france that he be wrote home about it 1 I will roar you an any nightingale may not be so farfetched far fetched after all it will be a disappointment to the poets who from time immemorial have consigned the sweet bird that shun nat st the noise of folly to quiet forest sanctuaries moreover all the birds seem to like the nolee noise our letter writer adds |