The Sorcerer

 

Grady McMurtry

 

28 November 1941

 

 

They dug him up and he was fresh,

By this and by the tangled mesh

Of roots that found no sustenance

Within him, they were want to know

That this was him who bid there grow

About him that which mortal lance

Could not dispute, and so they lopped

His head with silver axe and chopped

A stake to drive into his heart

Which, doing this, removed his art.

 

 

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