Excerpt from The Lily and the Bee: An Apologue of the Crystal Palace
In the south transept of the Crystal Palace, already vanishing from before our eyes, may be seen, for a little while longer, twin figures of the youthful Alfred the Great and his Mother; who is giving him the Book of Saxon poetry, which she had promised to him, among her sons, who should soonest learn to read it. Historians record that Alfred was passionately fond of the Saxon poems, listening to them eagerly by day and by night; and that as he listened, the first aspirings of a soaring mind seem to have arisen within him.
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