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