First line: They have taken the gable from the roof of clay.
Written in Steep.
Poem 26 in R. George Thomas, The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas (1978), p. 83.
Drafts:
(1) British Library (Add MSS. 44990), two versions
(2) Typescript once owned by Julian Thomas (Thomas' brother), now in private hands
First published in Edward Eastaway [Edward Thomas], Poems (1917).