Call thou upon him to advise thee in all thy need, and he shall help thee to compass all thy desires." Alfred was fifty-two years of age when he died.

His death was universally lamented.

The body was interred in the great cathedral at Winchester.

The kingdom passed peacefully and prosperously to his son, and the arrangements which Alfred had spent his life in framing and carrying into effect, soon began to work out their happy results.

The constructions which he founded stand to the present day, strengthened and extended rather than impaired by the hand of time; and his memory, as their founder, will be honored as long as any remembrance of the past shall endure among the minds of men..