“Your father bears an iron reed
Filled with a flame that makes us bleed;
Your kindly mother loves to tear
Feathers and skin to deck her hair.”

Poem A song for Edmund Blunden

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“Your father bears an iron reedFilled with a flame that makes us bleed;Your kindly mother loves to tearFeathers and skin to deck her hair.”

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“Your father bears an iron reed
Filled with a flame that makes us bleed;
Your kindly mother loves to tear
Feathers and skin to deck her hair.”