8vo. Manuscript on paper. [34] leaves. Text within hand-coloured illustrated borders. Near contemporary green cloth, ruled and lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers. One leaf detached.

A finely-executed, unpublished devotional poem, in a single calligraphic hand, lavishly decorated throughout with exquisitely rendered watercolour illustrations. The poem is divided into thirty-one stanzas, one for each day of the month, and each accompanied by a relevant Bible verse on the conjugate leaf.

Incipit: 'No fear nor shirking, when we forward press / Into the fight. / For with us is our Captain, He will bless, / And aid the right:- / His watchful eye takes note of weariness, / And thro' the night / HIs soft voice whispers, "stand ye still, / I'll fight".

Explicit: 'Faithful be unto the end, / God is ready to befriend, / In perplexity, and doubt; / He will never cast thee out, / But will ever stand by thee, / If thou wilt but faithful be, / Till thou winnest for thy strife / The everlasting "Crown of Life".

The author, E. C. Beaumont, may have been the Coventry Post Office worker, who served as private in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment during the First World War, and killed in action at the Battle of the Somme, 1916.