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Excerpt from Songs of Feast, Field, and Fray Many will agree with me in thinking that the hunting songs hitherto published are generally deficient in that elevation and energy which ought to distinguish the annals of a pursuit, ever the favourite of princes, poten tates, and peers, since The Mighty Hunter founded his dynasty in Assvria. My endeavour has been to raise some old Legends of the chase to the level of ordinary lyric poetry: if I could have breathed into them some of my own enthusiasm for The Noble Science, I think I should not have succeeded ill. 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.