This chapter's epigraph comes from a famous poem by the English poet William Butler Yeats. It's a poem in which the protagonist laments the loss of a loved one, and then laments his own loss. In this passage, the protagonist bemoans the fact that he has lost his beloved. He feels that his life has been ruined, and that he will never be able to return to his former self. He laments that he is no longer a member of the community, and he feels that he no longer belongs to the people of the north. He also feels that if he had not been killed, he would have been a corpse. The protagonist then goes on to say that if the northern lord had killed him, the northern prince would have killed him as well. The northern prince's daughter, he says, is the daughter of a northern lord, and therefore, he must be killed. He then says that if xia had been killed in an accident, they would have all been killed