First line: They should never have built a barn there, at all.
Written in Steep.
Poem 37 in R. George Thomas, The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas (1978), p. 115.
Drafts:
(1) British Library (Add MSS. 44990)
(2) Typescript sent to Harry Hooton, bought by Norman Colbeck, now in the Colbeck Collection, University of British Columbia
First published in Last Poems (1918).