Entitled here 'Anthem for Dead Youth'. This manuscript consists of a working of the first 6 lines of the poem. This is no. 96 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
No. 96 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'. MSS in the possession of the Britten-Pears Foundation. Benjamin Britten's 1961 oratorio 'War Requiem' blended Mass for the Dead and Owen's poems.