There's nothing like the sun

First line: There's nothing like the sun as the year dies.

Written at Hare Hall Camp, Gidea Park, Romford.

Poem 90 in R. George Thomas, The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas (1978), p. 249.

Drafts:

(1) Bodleian (MS.Don.d.28)

(2) Manuscript poem once owned by Eleanor Farjeon

(3) Typescript poem once owned by Eleanor Farjeon

First published in Edward Eastaway [Edward Thomas], Poems (1917).

See R. George Thomas, The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas (1978), p.248 for variant drafts.

A musical score is at 424/2/151/11F.

A draft in a letter to Eleanor Farjeon at 424/1/2/1/21/119.