First line: 'Is this the road that climbs above and bends.'
Written in Steep.
Poem 72 in R. George Thomas, The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas (1978), p. 203.
Drafts:
(1) British Library (Add MS. 44990)
(2) Green notebook in the possession of Edward Cawston Thomas (Thomas' grandson)
(3) Typescript sent to Harry Hooton, bought by Norman Colbeck, now in the Colbeck Collection, University of British Columbia
First published in Last Poems (1918).