Beowulf, the speech I shall never forget

I only had a small part in a production of Beowulf in Wadham College Hall during my first year at Oxford University. I wasn't an actor. We used the Burton Raffel translation. I was proud to deliver this speech (as translated by Burton Raffel)  and to commit it to memory. Never forgotten! 

Wadham College Hall made a good Herot (Heorot) - a suitable mead-hall.

My speech was the lament of the guardian of the treasure, the last survivor of his people...It still seems relevant.