And little blind mouths fumbling for my breast,

And this place would have been a place of rest

For you and me; we could have come to know

The depth; but that is over; I have got to go.

"He has come back, and I have got to go.

Our marriage ends." She stood there white and breathed.

Old Occleve got upon his feet with "So."

Blazing with wrath upon the hearth he seethed.

A log fell from the bars; blue spirals wreathed

Across the still old woman's startled face;