Till night when, by the fire's red stain, unfree,!

Look at the little darlings in the corn! Dejectedly;—a huntsman goes by with his load:

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 Think, I daren't die not free myself from the past, those others—