Word: falconer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This is the first grim movement in the symphony of Black Lamb and Grey Falcon...
There flies a grey bird, a falcon...
...beak he bears a swallow. . . . The grey falcon comes to Tsar Lazar at Kossovo and says...
...want an earthly kingdom? If you want an earthly kingdom, says the grey falcon, saddle your horses and drive out the Turks. If you want a heavenly kingdom, build a church at Kossovo...
Later Author West tells how from be leaguered England she watched the Yugoslavs struggle against themselves to save their soul and meet certain defeat at the hands of the Nazis. "In this hour the Yugoslavs often repeated the poem of Tsar Lazar and the grey falcon. . . . 'All was holy, all was honourable,' they quoted, looking down from the tall tower of prescience on the field of their coming fate, 'and the goodness of God was fulfilled.' " Then she was sure that it was a poem of life, not of death...