With a note inserted below the title "Copied for Mrs. Hope June 19, 1819."
Written on a fragment of paper with drafts of what appear to be a letter on the verso.
Crabbe's wife Sara died September 21, 1813.
An introduction to the poem, in the publication cited below, explains "Before finally quitting Leicestershire, my father paid a short visit to his sister at Aldborough, from whom he was about to be still more widely divided; and one day was given to a solitary ramble among the scenery of bygone years - Parham and the woods of Glemham, then in the first blossom of May. He did not return until night and in his note-book I find the following brief record of this mournful visit."
Being a poem of three four-line verses beginning "Yes, I behold again the place / The seat of joy, the source of pain" and ending "For Death has made its charm his prey, / And joy is buried in her grave."