They came hither from warm lands; and here they are always watching for the sun, but there is hardly any sun, and no sweet heaven over this level waste of fens, over these green ponds black with the shadows of forests of oaks and pines, over this willow-hung canal that runs to the rounded grey of the horizon.
"Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck"
Jethro Bithell
The impulse of love impels him to the secluded fens and marshes of the northland.
"Memoirs of Orange Jacobs"
Orange Jacobs
Within the last fifty years it was a common occurrence to see on sale in the market-place at Nottingham at the Goose Fair from fifteen to twenty thousand geese, which had been brought from the fens of Lincolnshire.
"England in the Days of Old"
William Andrews