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Sees there such shapes as haunt
Beyond nightmare and make
Pride humble for pride's sake.

Then, and then only, turning
The stiff neck mund, I grow
A molten man all burning
And look behind, and know
Who made the flaw, what light makes dark,
what fair

Makes foul my shadowy form reflected there,
That self-love, big with love, dying, its child
may bear.

[It is a matter for speculation, what the author of Nargothrond thought
of the public library at Narrowthrode. - This poem, with some alter-
ations, was included in The Pilgrim's Regress (1933).]

563-92. Sic in all MSS. The passage is, of course, genuine,
and truly worthy of the Geste. But surely it must
originally have stood at 391 Of 393? The artificial
insertion of Beren's journey in its present place -
where it appears as retrospect not as direct narrative,
though defensible, belongs to a kind of art more
sophisticated than that of the Geste: it is just such a
transposition as a late Broseliandic literary redactor
would make under the influence of the classical epic.

[A quarter of a century later, or more, my father rewrote this part of the
poem; and he took Lewis's advice. See p. 352.]

[The original reading of B criticised in the next comment (lines 629 ff.)
was:

Then stared he wild in dumbness bound
at silent trees, deserted ground;
the dizzy moon was twisted grey
in tears, for she had fled away.)

629 - 30 Thus in PRKJ. The Latinised adverbial use of the
adjective in mild and the omitted articles in the next
line are suspicious.

L But wildly Beren gazed around
On silent trees (and)* empty ground.
The dizzy moon etc.

(* Peabody supplies and. But the monosyllabic foot is
quite possible. Cf. 687.)