Walter as narrator

• I know at once...

  who we should blame
• I count myself...

  amongst those aliens
• I've fallen out of love...

  with them and fallen out of love with here
• I'm not a product of...

  these commons but just a visitor who stayed
• counts me as...

  a town owl that's all hoot and no talons
• somehow the village was already...

  burdened by misfortune before its future rode in on a horse
• they're closing ranks already...

  and I am not included
• I cannot serve each...

  master and each friend with equal shares
• I do not even know myself...

  who it is I want to please
• I'll hang the shawl...

  close to the husband but beyond his reach
• I never could prove...

  brave or blond enough to stay
• "I've stolen it", I say...

  he needs to know I'm taking risks for him
• The farmer in me - ...

  yes, I can boast that
• I was too wretched...

  a hero for the field
• what starts with...

  fire ends with fire
• what starts with fire, ends with ash; ...

  it has to end with ash if I am to give Mr Quill an honourable cremation
• I am the boy that needs reminding...

  where he does and does not fit in
• I have to carry on alone until I reach wherever is awaiting me, ...

  until I gain wherever is awaiting us.
• I would be truly neighbourly, and call on them. ...

  Surely I deserved their company
• marking my revenge, ...

  my country man's revenge
• I was never a...

  local tree, grown in this soil from seed
• men who have no _ but are like _

  men who have no roots but are like mistletoe
• I don't have to be a swift or kite ...

  to know about the world and how it's changing
• I sense the mood is to let this drama run its course and ...

  die back with the flames