The White Horse King: The Life of Alfred the Great The Iliad I found it difficult to

I found it difficult to put down

through the nine spheres of heaven to reach the beatific vision of God

poetry is really just the art of noticing

Chesterton

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The White Horse King: The Life of Alfred the Great The Iliad I found it difficult toThe unlikely king who saved England. Down swept the Vikings from the frigid North. Across the English coastlands and countryside they raided, torched, murdered, and destroyed all in their path. Farmers, monks, and soldiers all fell bloody under the Viking sword, hammer, and axe. Then, when the hour was most desperate, came an unlikely hero. King Alfred rallied the battered and bedraggled kingdoms of Britain and after decades of plotting, praying, and