Love is singing soft and low ...

Love is singing soft and low ...
by Robert E. Howard

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

1894085Love is singing soft and low ...Robert E. Howard


Love is singing soft and low,

Beauty sets the lover’s goal;

Life’s a lot of hooey, so

Answer soon, God damn your soul.

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