Pieces of Eight (2020)

Practicalities

He was almost twice her age, with sons nearing it,
A widower with a farm and no wife, and she, a girl
Four and twenty, plain but healthy, a girl who was
Built like a plough-horse, not likely to die
And leave him to raise children alone, a good match.

December is a cold month to marry
Fifteen years brought no warmer days

When he died, she buried him with his first wife.



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TOPIC - plough