The flowers left thick at nightfall in the wood This Eastertide call into mind the men, Now far from home, who, with their sweethearts, should Have gathered them and will do never again.
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First published in Poems (1917). First located printing is this volume; an earlier periodical printing has not been established. [1]
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Edward Thomas (1878–1917).
“In Memoriam (Easter, 1915).” First published in Poems (1917).
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