First line: It rains, and nothing stirs within the fence.
Written at Hare Hall Camp, Gidea Park, Romford.
Poem 117 in R. George Thomas, The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas (1978), p. 315.
Drafts:
(1) Bodleian (MS.Don.d.28)
(2) Blue notebook in the Thomas family's possession, two versions
First published in Edward Eastaway [Edward Thomas], Poems (1917).