And again—
“Ravens
Fly o’er our heads, and downward look on us,
As we were sickly prey.”
Julius Cæsar, Act v. Sc. 3.
ITS PRESENCE ON BATTLE-FIELDS.
In Henry V. (Act iv. Sc. 2) we have a graphic picture of a distressed army followed by ravens on the look-out for corpses:—
“Yond island carrions, desperate of their bones,
Ill-favour’dly become the morning field:
Their ragged curtains poorly are let loose,