First line: 'He has robbed two clubs. The judge at Salisbury.'
Written in Steep.
Poem 55 in R. George Thomas, The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas (1978), p. 157.
Drafts:
(1) British Library (Add MSS. 44990)
(2) Green notebook in the possession of Edward Cawston Thomas (Thomas' grandson)
(3) Typescript sent to Harry Hooton, bought by Norman Colbeck, now in the Colbeck Collection, University of British Columbia
First published in Edward Eastaway [Edward Thomas], Poems (1917).