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It can be found for example in: Abcarian, Richard, and Marvin Klotz, eds. Literature: The Human Experience (Shorter Fourth Edition with Essays). New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988, or in: Ferguson, Margaret, Mary Jo Salter, and Jon Stallworthy, eds. The Norton Anthology of Poetry (Fourth Edition). New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1996.

The poem was written as a variant of Christopher Marlowe's The Passionate Shepherd to His Love.

Day Lewis was the Poet Laureate of England from 1968 to 1972.