Riez Bailleul ['...in blue tea-time']

Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. Note on top of page reads 'while 'asking' for death. / electrical'. This draft of the poem was included in in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004). An alternative typescript and draft of the poem survives and was included in Leonard Clark's edition of Gurney's poems in 1973. From a pink mottled hard-cover exercise book. The inside front cover is inscribed 'Music to Miss C. Rogers...Poetry to Professor Saintsbury / Bath'. The inside back cover is inscribed 'Instead of a home / I require death'.

这份手稿为艾弗·格尼（Ivor Gurney）亲笔钢笔手书原稿。页面顶部的批注写道："‘祈求死亡’之际。/ 电气（electrical）"。该诗歌草稿被收录于P.J.卡瓦纳（P.J. Kavanagh）编订的《艾弗·格尼诗集全集（Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems）》（2004年版）。另有一份该诗歌的替代打字稿与草稿留存，并于1973年被收录于伦纳德·克拉克（Leonard Clark）编订的格尼诗歌集。该手稿出自一本带有粉色斑驳纹理的硬皮练习簿，其内前扉页题有："致C.罗杰斯小姐的音乐……致圣茨伯里教授的诗歌 / 巴斯"，内后扉页则题有："无家可归 / 唯求一死"。