A Tale [Cancelled version]

First line: There once the walls. Written in Steep.

Poem 52 in R. George Thomas, The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas (1978), p. 149.

Drafts:

(1) Typescript once owned by Mary Elizabeth Thomas (Thomas' mother)

(2) British Library (Add MS. 44990)

(3) Green notebook in the possession of Edward Cawston Thomas (Thomas' grandson), two versions

First published in Last Poems (1918).

See R. George Thomas, The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas (1978), p.148 for variant drafts.