"One to be quenched, to be given up, to be gone Grief makes us free!

Why do I crawl about this pot, this oubliette, Where the brands of the angels, like torches

me, like the first And I love you so! Straight and clean and all of a 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