Book is vii + 55 pp. A poem of 42 lines in seven 6-line stanzas. "Beowulf" as presented in Ceremony and Other Poems is a reprint of the 1948 version with trivial editorial changes (substitution of semicolon for original comma at end of l. 29, and respelling of "travelled" and "jewelled" as "traveled" and "jeweled").

The poem begins:

The land was overmuch like scenery,
The flowers attentive, the grass too garrulous green;
In the lake like a dropped kerchief could be seen
The lark's reflection after the lark was gone;
The Roman road lay paved too shiningly
For a road so many men had traveled on. (36)

And ends:

He died in his own country a kinless king,
A name heavy with deeds, and mourned as one
Will mourn for the frozen year when it is done.
They buried him next the sea on a thrust of land:
Twelve men rode round his barrow all in a ring,
Singing of him what they could understand. (37)

Not in MO1, GR, or MO2. (MO2 1948 does reference the poem's original publication as part of "Notes on Heroes" in 1948.)

Fry gives the book's date as "1948-50," reflecting the copyright dates of individual poems within it.

BAM.