Excerpt from The Maid of Orleans: And Other Poems Proud waves the Briton's banner on our walls Fierce sweep his trampling war-steeds o'er our fields. Already Paris has received the victor, And with the ancient crown of Dagobert Adome the sapling of a foreign race. Disherited and fugitive in his Own realm, must the descendant of our kings Go forth his nearest cousin, his first peer, In hostile arms nay, his own raven-mother Conspiring with invaders to destroy him. Farms, villages, are blazing round us nearer And nearer still, to these yet peaceful vales, On rolls the ruthless ame of desolation. 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."