Excerpt from The Field Floridus, and Other Poems When Saxon axe rang fast on Norman shield, When kite and raven screamed o'er Senlac field, When smoke slow-drifted o'er the stifled fen, And the slain herdsman kept his pillaged bield. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.