Keep women, thrones and kingly lands ...

Keep women, thrones and kingly lands ...
by Robert E. Howard

From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. January 1928; titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY

1894065Keep women, thrones and kingly lands ...Robert E. Howard

Keep women, thrones and kingly lands,

Grant me—to work all mankind dole

To cleave their skulls and split their hands,

To kill the body, damn the soul.

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