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Are you sure of the 1899 date?

Here's what we have for "Afoot":

From Wings of the Morning, edited by Cicely Fox Smith, published by Elkin Mathews, London, UK, © 1904, p. 64. Reprinted in Country Days And Country Ways: Trudging Afoot in England, by Cicely Fox Smith, published by F. Lewis, Ltd., Leigh-on-Sea, UK, © 1947, p. 11.

There is a delightful book of poems, edited by E. V. Lucas, entitled The Open Road [Methuen] in which this poem appears along with a note of thanks to Miss Cicely Fox Smith from the editor and that note is dated 1905.

This is one of the few very early poems that the poet ever reprinted in one of her later, and in this case much later, works.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble