Wreckage and Homecoming

1 On the summit of Primrose Hill, the narrator stands weeping, his hands raised in praise

2 In a black-dusted street of St. John's Wood, the demented narrator staggers and sings

3 The kindly host gently tells the Narrator that Leatherhead has been destroyed

4 From a train, a small Union Jack flaps over the heaped earth around the sixth cylinder

5 Home at last on a bright June day, the narrator stops at his garden gate.

6 Back in his dust-filled study, the narrator lifts the sheet he left a month ago

7 In his ruined dining room, the narrator freezes as an unseen voice speaks his despair

8 At the French window, the narrator sees his wife alive on the lawn with his cousin

9 In the sunlit June garden, the narrator's wife looks at the husband she believed dead.

10 The wife sways, hand to her throat, as the narrator lunges off the step to catch her