MS-UoR-1477-1

[0039] never stirring ^{never a stir xx you} except
every now & again the
mouth to say you
loved each other

[0034] never clear what she looked like
never seemed to look at each other ^{turned seemed to look at her nor she at you}
always side by side facing front like
at the two ends of an axle tree
couldn't couldn't turn your heads
to look at each oth for a look at
each other xxx ^{nothing more no better than} two blurs xx xxx the
edge of the fields at the limits of
the fields

[0034] never clear what she looked like
never seemed ^turned to look at her nor
she at you always parallel like
axle-tr on an axle-tree couldn't turn
your heads for a look at each other
no better than two blurs at the
limits of the fields

[0034] no touching or anything of that
kind always xx xxx ^space between if
only a few inches no reaching out
with the hands ^{feeling to} to see were you flesh
and blood no better than two wraiths
if it wasn't for the odd coo out of you

[0037] never moving always dead ^stock still ^{like in a daze}
like that time on the stone or
that time in the sandhills stretched
out parallel in the sun gazing up
at the blue sky or xx the eyes
closed now the one now the other
xxx xx xxx blue dark blue dark

[0037] picture come floating up and
there you were wherever it was
side might be [0039] stock still side by
side in the sun then sink &
vanished without your having

[0039] stirred any more than the two
knobs on a dumbbell except
the eyelids and every now &
again the mouths ^lips to say you^r
loved each other piece

[0039] all around [⁁]^{xxxish all around} too all still [⁁]^{all aroun all sides} wherever
it might be nothing stirring not a
sound only no stir nor sound
only the leaves but only faintly the
leaves or the rushes bent or the
stream against the bank as the case
might be no sign or trace of man
xxx no trace of man

[0039] without your having stirred
except but for the eyes the
eyes eyelids and the mouths
every now & again to say
you loved each other