Sublime

Beowulf

by Richard Wilbur

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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.

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Also the people were strange, were strangely warm.

The king

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