2nd Lt Edward Thomas

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Reference WMO/295772

Address:

All Saints Church

Church Road

Steep

GU32 2DE

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Non freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Attached to a building/structure
Description: Other window
Materials:
  • Glass Glass
Lettering: Other
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: Two etched glass windows. the left window depicts a green road across hills bordered by yew and flowering may. A depiction of Edward Thomas's jacket hangs on a branch with is pipe and stick beside it. Landscape and sky are in the background. The right hand window is engraved with one of his poems above in the mist is his house on the hill above Steep. Below is a sequence of doors the last one opening onto a Flanders Battlefield from which the sun rises and then turns into a door latch he has just closed behind him in the poem. Edward Thomas was a considerable poet and served with the Artists Rifles. The engraving on the windows was done by Laurence Whistler. The Hampshire War Memorials website syas that the etching is hard to read unless te light and the angle are right. There is an explanatory note below the windows.
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(Left window) EDWARD THOMAS (Right window) THE / NEW / HOUSE / NOW FIRST, AS I SHUT THE DOOR / I WAS ALONE / IN THE NEW HOUSE, AND THE WIND / BEGAN TO MOAN / OLD AT ONCE WAS THE HOUSE, / AND I WAS OLD / MY EARS WERE TEASED WITH THE DREAD / OF WHAT WAS FORETOLD, / NIGHTS OF STORM DAYS OF MIST WITHOUT END / SAD DAYS WHEN THE SUN / SHONE IN VAIN: OLD GRIEFS AND GRIEFS / NOT YET BEGUN / ALL WAS FORETOLD ME, NAUGHT / COULD I FORSEE; / BUT I LEARNED HOW THE WIND WOULD SOUND / AFTER THESE THINGS SHOULD BE./ EDWARD THOMAS/ 1878/ 1917

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