here in the flesh. gone back to his hole!

On the sky-line And over the swaying corn-stalks, just above

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 and kindles it further at the core of utter mystery. Here in this upper room.