Ballad Of The White Horse. On the one hand it describes king alfred's battle against the danes in 878. Web the ballad of the white horse :

Web the ballad of the white horse is one of the last great epic poems in the english language. Chesterton about the idealised exploits of the saxon king. Web at the white horse down, a small child makes piles of stones, piling one atop the other until they fall, and he begins again.