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Vachel Lindsay - The Modest Jazz-Bird
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The Jazz-bird sings a barnyard song—
A cock-a-doodle bray, 
A jingle-bells, a boiler works, 
A he-man`s roundelay.

The eagle said, "My noisy son,
I send you out to fight!" 
So the youngster spread his sunflower wings
And roared with all his might.

His headlight eyes went flashing
From Oregon to Maine; 
And the land was dark with airships 
In the darting Jazz-bird`s train.

Crossing the howling ocean, 
His bell-mouth shook the sky; 
And the Yankees in the trenches 
Gave back the hue and cry. 

And Europe had not heard the like—
And Germany went down! 
The fowl of steel with clashing claws 
Tore off the Kaiser`s crown.
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