Book is 136 pp. Reproduces the poem "Beowulf" as published in Ceremony and Other Poems (1950). A 42-line poem in seven 6-line stanzas.

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. (68)

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. (69)

No reference in MO1 or GR. The poem's inclusion in this collection not in Fry or MO2.

BAM.