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" Bring the cowherd hither , that I and those who are with me may hear him , " said she . So Caedmon was led into the great hall of the abbey . And all of the sweet - faced sisters and other women of the place listened while he sang again the wonderful song of the creation . " Surely , " said the abbess , " this is a poem , most sweet , most true , most beautiful . It must be written down so that people in other places and in other times may hear it read and sung . " So she called her clerk , who was a scholar , and bade him write the song , word for word , as it came from Caedmon's lips . And this he did . Such was the way in which the first true English poem was written . And Caedmon , the poor cowherd of the abbey , was the first great poet of England . THE LOVER OF MEN In the Far East there was once a prince whose name was Gautama . He lived in a splendid palace where there was everything that could give delight . It was the wish of his father and mother that every day of his life should be a day of perfect happiness . So this prince grew up to be a young man , tall and fair and graceful . He had never gone beyond the beautiful gardens that surrounded his father's palace . He had never seen nor heard of sorrow or sickness or poverty . Everything that was evil or disagreeable had been carefully kept out of his sight . He knew only of those things that give joy and health and peace . But one day after he had become a man , he said : " Tell me about the great world which , you say , lies outside of these palace walls . It must be a beautiful and happy place ; and I wish to know all about it . " " Yes , it is a beautiful place , " was the answer . " In it there are numberless trees and flowers and rivers and waterfalls , and other things to make the heart glad . " " Then to - morrow I will go out and see some of those things , " he said . His parents and friends begged him not to go . They told him that there were beautiful things at home — why go away to see other things less beautiful ? But when they saw that his mind was set on going , they said no more . The next morning , Gautama sat in his carriage and rode out from the palace into one of the streets of the city . He looked with wonder at the houses on either side , and at the faces of the children who stood in the doorways as he passed . At first he did not see anything that disturbed him ; for word had gone before him to remove from sight everything that might be displeasing or painful . Soon the carriage turned into another street — a street less carefully guarded . Here there were no children at the doors . But suddenly , at a narrow place , they met a very old man , hobbling slowly along over the stony way .
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