I can hear the Isar moan, It must be you who desire!

A THICK mist-sheet lies over the broken wheat. OUT of this oubliette between the mountains

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 to me here, and lay your body by mine, creator, I looked at my creation;