REH’s Writings

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The Singer in the Mist

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At birth a witch laid on me monstrous spells,And I have trod strange highroads all my days,Turning my feet to gray, unholy ways.I grope for stems of broken asphodels;

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An earlier untitled draftThe Singer in the Mist

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the birth-witchwitch who lays spells on the speaker at birth2 textual states the Singer in the Misttitular first-person wanderer under a witch’s spell2 textual states