Henry Wadsworth Longfellow — Woodstock Park

Here in a little rustic hermitage        &nbsp Alfred the Saxon King, Alfred the Great,        &nbsp Postponed the cares of king-craft to translate        &nbsp The Consolations of the Roman sage. Here Geoffrey Chaucer in his ripe old age        &nbsp Wrote the unrivalled Tales, which soon or late        &nbsp The venturous hand that strives to imitate        &nbsp Vanquished must fall on the unfinished page. Two kings were they, who ruled by right divine,        &nbsp And both supreme; one in the realm of Truth,        &nbsp One in the realm of Fiction and of Song. What prince hereditary of their line,        &nbsp Uprising in the strength and flush of youth,        &nbsp Their glory shall inherit and prolong?