Front matter
Reading edition
“’TWILL LULL THEE TO DREAMLESS REPOSE.”
A MAID AT KING ALFRED’S COURT
A Story for Girls
By
LUCY FOSTER MADISON
Author of “A Maid of the First Century,” etc.
ILLUSTRATED BY IDA WAUGH
THE PENN PUBLISHING COMPANY
PHILADELPHIA MCM
Copyright 1900 by The Penn Publishing Company
“I bring, thy favor to attain,
King Alfred and his glorious reign.
No nobler hero could I bring
Than Britain’s pure and gentle king.
Brighter than all, his spotless name
Shines on his country’s scroll of fame.
A thousand years his bones are dust,
Yet men still name him as the Just.
A hundred kings have ruled his state,
Yet him alone she names—The Great.
To him, her noblest praise she sings,
As mightiest of her mighty kings.”