With the husband: back he fell, was buttressed there

By the window all aflame with morning-red,

He the black figure, the opprobrious blur

Against all peace and joy and light and life.

"Away from between me and hell!" she cried:

"Hell for me, no embracing any more!

I am God's, I love God, God—whose knees I clasp,

Whose utterly most just award I take,

But bear no more love-making devils: hence!"

I may have made an effort to reach her side