Harold: the Last of the Saxon Kings (Complete)

Harold: the Last of the Saxon Kings by Edward Bulwer-Lytton - Merry was the month of May in the year of our Lord 1052. Few were the boys, and few the lasses, who overslept themselves on the first of that buxom month. Long ere the dawn, the crowds had sought mead and woodland, to cut poles and wreathe flowers. Many a mead then lay fair and green beyond the village of Charing, and behind the isle o...