The Zōophanes Gift

Volume 1: Chapter 18 ~ The Last Wyvern | Grotesque ~ A Gothic Epic | G.E. Graven

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Vol. I: Chap. XVIII ~ finis.

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~19: Shell of a Man

“Shade of a shadow in the glass,
O set the crystal surface free!
Pass - as the fairer visions pass -
Nor ever more return, to be
The ghost of a distracted hour,
That heard me whisper: - 'I am she!'"
~M.E. Coleridge

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