Many bright people pass, would wish!

In one rich drip it sinks to another sleep, And at the foot of a grave a mother kneels

mere female adjunct of what I was. Not like the earth, the spouse all full of increase 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