ABSTRACT
Roughly drafted in ink in Nbk 15, this unfinished poem is untitled. Beneath the second stanza on p. 346 (which has a burn to the left edge), reverse, is a translation of the beginning of the first sentence of Plato, Republic vi. Beneath the fourth stanza on p. 347 are numerical figures. In pencil, on an otherwise blank page later in the nbk (p. 370 rev.), is a version of the poem's second line: ‘The bats were flitting in the moonlight? [air]’ (BSM xiv 264–5).
