87764: Migrants

A fair manuscript copy of this poem in pencil. Another draft exists in the green manuscript notebook 64.6. this draft was transcribed by Gurney in a letter of 27th August 1918 to Marion Scott, and he referred to it as 'Which is one of my best things - to the author's mind, at any rate'. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919). Written while Gurney was a patient at the Middlesex War Hospital. Found in a coverless notebook used by Gurney from late August to mid-September 1918.