A covenant marriage.

Why stay?

Together, and apart.

Twenty four, plus four, then one.

Faithful, had not, been they?

The others, last did not ...

Still.

they, remain,
together, and apart.

Courage then comes,
together, and apart.

Searching for the missing,
Together,  and apart.

The need, the lack, their in
Together, it drove, them
Together, and apart.

The four plus one,
are more then the two.

Then, to the end,
Thus, then were they.

Together, and apart.