First line: There they stand, on their ends, the fifty faggots.
Written in the British Museum.
Poem 73 in R. George Thomas, The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas (1978), p. 207.
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
(3) Poem included in a letter to Robert Frost, in Dartmouth College Library, New Hampshire
First published in Edward Eastaway [Edward Thomas], Poems (1917).