Of other women; less than six miles hence

You and another woman felt love's wings

Rosy and fair, and so took leave of sense.

She's dead, that other woman, dead, with pence

Pressed on her big brown eyes, under the ground;

She that was merry once, feeling the world go round.

"Her child (and yours) is with her sister now,

Out there, behind us, living as they can;

Pinched by the poverty that you allow.

All a long autumn many rumours ran