97. Wed Apart

Costly preceding years
Seemed a net closing round –
A net in which
The mysterious way
Two people
Get to know each others’ thoughts
Outbreak…
Intolerable;
A great feeling of self-contempt speaking harshly.
There can have been few men more miserable
At that period.
He was a very simple soul – very simple –
No man can satisfactorily accomplish work
Without woman.
He was beginning his own traditions
A sheer individualist,
An overlord doing his best.
She came of a family plundered,
She was thinking unceasingly of children.
They never had any children –
Not that children
Made the dissimilarity
Of Edward and Leonora.