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I'd say it's more of a reference, coincidence, or a natural result of her silver hair. It's just the song calling her the silver sparrow, after all, and it's directly beside "Neomaria of the inverted gravestone" which is a title made more solid actual quotations (at least to me.) Since we know it has to be set before she goes by Mariam, and she goes by Mariam in Daughter of Fog, I'd say we go by that.

That or the people who adopted her knew her past. That's also quite possible and another reason they made her a general so quickly.

Or she also remembered the name "silver sparrow."