REH’s Writings

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An Open Window

Alternate title:House in the Oaks, The (verse contained in the story)

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SectionFinished and Professional

Opening lines

Behind the Veil what gulfs of Time and Space?What blinking mowing Shapes to blast the sight?I shrink before a vague colossal FaceBorn in the mad immensities of Night.

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Finished / professionalAn Open Window

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the colossal Facecolossal face glimpsed beyond the Veil1 textual state