Beowulf | Text of the Poem

The land was overmuch like scenery,
The flowers attentive, the grass to 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     5
For a road so many men had traveled on.

Also the people were strange, were strangely warm.
The king recalled the father of his guest,
The queen brought mead in a studded cup, the rest
Were kind, but in all was a vagueness and a strain,     10
Because they lived in a land of daily harm.
And they said the same things again and again.

It was a childish...

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