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Manuscript in black pen with corrections in blue ink, signed 'Ivor Gurney'. From manuscript notebook 'GA1'. Written while Gurney was either at Barnwood House asylum, Gloucester (September-December 1922) or Stone House, Dartford, Kent (the City of London Mental Hospital where Gurney stayed from December 1922 until his death). Appears in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004).