First line: It was upon a July evening.
Written at Hare Hall Camp, Gidea Park, Romford.
Poem 125 in R. George Thomas, The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas (1978), p. 337.
Drafts:
(1) Bodleian (MS.Don.d.28)
(2) Blue notebook in the Thomas family's possession
(3) Manuscript poem given by Eleanor Farjeon to Rowland L. Watson
First published in Edward Eastaway [Edward Thomas], Poems (1917).