Moorcroft Wilson’s notes detail backstory of this having been written after Sorley’s train from Officer Training Camp arrived at Paddington just as the train for term starting at Marlborough was about to depart. Sorley comments “Not much trace of the origin left; but I think it should get a prize for being the first poem written since August 4th that isn’t patriotic.”
Locations in Harold's Library
- The Collected Poems of Charles Hamilton Sorley (book)
- page 72
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