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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).

该手稿以黑色钢笔书写，带有蓝色墨水修改痕迹，署名为艾弗·古尔尼（Ivor Gurney）。该手稿出自编号为‘GA1’的手稿笔记册。其创作时段为以下二者之一：一是古尔尼入住英国格洛斯特郡巴纳德伍德庄园精神病院期间（1922年9月至12月）；二是肯特郡达特福德的石屋（伦敦市精神病院，古尔尼自1922年12月起在此居住直至逝世）。该手稿收录于P.J.卡瓦纳（P.J. Kavanagh）编订的《艾弗·古尔尼：诗集全集（Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems）》（2004年版）。