- Operation Yellowhammer Archived Message
Posted by Mary
on September 12, 2019, 11:40 am
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Who subverted the name of this beautiful bird for their rot? Its song is supposed to sound like 'a little bit of bread and no cheese'. I see it emanated from HM Treasury and was displayed to the press photographers in September last. Perhaps Hammond and the bean counters were being ironic! The name was displayed to the press photographers in September last. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Yellowhammer La Kuenssberg refers. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-45410344 The Yellowhammer's Nest By John Clare 1793– 1864 Just by the wooden brig a bird flew up, Frit by the cowboy as he scrambled down To reach the misty dewberry—let us stoop And seek its nest—the brook we need not dread, 'Tis scarcely deep enough a bee to drown, So it sings harmless o'er its pebbly bed —Ay here it is, stuck close beside the bank Beneath the bunch of grass that spindles rank Its husk seeds tall and high—'tis rudely planned Of bleachèd stubbles and the withered fare That last year's harvest left upon the land, Lined thinly with the horse's sable hair. Five eggs, pen-scribbled o'er with ink their shells Resembling writing scrawls which fancy reads As nature's poesy and pastoral spells— They are the yellowhammer's and she dwells Most poet-like where brooks and flowery weeds As sweet as Castaly to fancy seems And that old molehill like as Parnass' hill On which her partner haply sits and dreams O'er all her joys of song—so leave it still A happy home of sunshine, flowers and streams. Yet in the sweetest places cometh ill, A noisome weed that burthens every soil; For snakes are known with chill and deadly coil To watch such nests and seize the helpless young, And like as though the plague became a guest, Leaving a houseless home, a ruined nest— And mournful hath the little warblers sung When such like woes hath rent its little breast. |
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