First line: Thinking of her had saddened me at first.
Written at Hare Hall Camp, Gidea Park, Romford.
Poem 103 in R. George Thomas, The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas (1978), p. 283.
Drafts:
(1) Bodleian (MS.Don.d.28)
(2) Blue notebook in the Thomas family's possession
First published in Last Poems (1918).