![Day 3 - Ward Dead - at the war memorials](https://walkingcommentary.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Day-3-War-Dead-Bethune-to-Peronne-1--1024x768.jpg)
On cycling from Béthune to Péronne
The Chiffchaff waited
But was it silent?
For 18 months?
The bird heard in the dales
Called chiff-chaff in Kent
And Pouillot véloce in Pas-de-Calais.
Today we hear the same zilpzalp
From trees overlooking Vimy graves
Or shell craters and trenches.
Did they hear it too?
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