Jupiter’s Descent
"They may have played together as boys, and, as young men, they
traveled the length and breadth of Virginia together and found
wives on the same plantation near Williamsburg. For over fifty
years their lives were bound together by law, for one man, Jupiter,
was the property of the other, Thomas Jefferson."
~the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Inc.
Of frogs, and their dusky song,
It is the two of them there, together both
Trousers rolled up to their knees.
It is getting late, and they would do better to leave
Soon before dark so to see the way home.
One night they stayed til after dark, and had to hold
Hands treading softly back to the house.
