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 Slipped through my arms on the threshing floor!

This fire-glow, the core, Two great dragon-flies wrestling;

Whence he drew the curious liquors On your grave, in England, the weeds grow. All, good, evil, both