[Over the Hills]

First line: Often and often it came back again.

Written in Steep.

Poem 23 in R. George Thomas, The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas (1978), p. 75.

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).

See R. George Thomas, The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas (1978), p.74 for variant drafts.