First line: If I should ever by chance grow rich.
Written 'at Little Warley and Hare Hall'.
Poem 106 in R. George Thomas, The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas (1978), p. 291.
Drafts:
(1) Manuscript sent to Helen Thomas
(2) Bodleian (MS.Don.d.28)
(3) Blue notebook in the Thomas family's possession
(4) Manuscript sent to Eleanor Farjeon.
The Bodleian dates the poem as 6 Apr 1916, but it had been sent to Eleanor Farjeon for typing on 2 Apr 1916 (424/1/2/1/21/2/130). R. George Thomas gives the general title 'Household Poems', which is taken from Thomas' letter to Gordon Bottomley, dated 24 Apr 1916 (424/1/1/1/10/218).
First published in Edward Eastaway [Edward Thomas], Poems (1917).