Ode to Edgar Aetheling
by Antony José Ma Junior.
The last scion of Saxon Kings
Line of Cerdic House of Wessex
The last Witan proclaimed
Edgar Aetheling is next.
Born far away in exile
Of the House of Wessex
Blood of Alfred Great
Anglo-Saxon Rex
Harold Godwinson
Killed at Senlac Hill
The Anglo-Saxon rose
Cut down lying still.
The coronation must
For Edgar Aetheling
New Westminster Abbey
Royal prince in waiting
But it was not to be
The Witan did betray
Young Edgar Aetheling
And gave his crown away.
Edgar Rex Secundus
The rightful king he should have been
Of Anglo-Saxon England
Over all his English kin.
Taken by the Bastard
Never to be king
Began a fateful lifetime
Of serving other kings.
I say a prayer for Edgar
History’s footnote
No grave nor monument
Could you and I take note.