but it will be like music, sheer utterance, And land that beats with a pulse!!

Still, the kiss was a touch of bitterness on my mouth Like stars on a pool.

After much struggling and loss in love and in the world of man, the protagonist throws in his lot with a woman who is already married. Together they go into another country, she perforce leaving her children behind. The conflict of love and hate goes on between the man and the woman, and between these two and the world around them, till it reaches some sort of conclusion, they transcend into some condition of blessedness "Come, you are cold, the night has frightened you. Passing with spears and pennants and manly scorn.