From the Window/Girls Song

Manuscript in pencil with corrections in ink and pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand. The poem was sent to John Haines in a letter received 11 September 1918. The right hand page contains an early draft of what was initially titled 'Girls Song' but which was later renamed 'The Tryst'. 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.该手稿以铅笔书写，并存有墨水与铅笔批注，出自艾弗·格尼（Ivor Gurney）之手。这首诗歌随1918年9月11日收到的一封书信被寄送给约翰·海恩斯（John Haines）。右侧页面收录了该作品的早期草稿，最初题为《Girls Song》，后更名为《The Tryst》。该草稿被收录于1919年出版的作品集《War's Embers》中。此手稿创作于格尼在米德尔塞克斯战争医院（Middlesex War Hospital）养病期间。该手稿发现于格尼1918年8月下旬至9月中旬使用的无封皮笔记本中。