The Song of the Sage
by Robert Ervin Howard

First published in The Collected Letters of Robert E. Howard, vol. 2 (2007), where it appears in a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. March 1930.

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The Song of the Sage

Thus spoke Scutto on the mountains in the twilight,
Sage and seer and councilor to lords of Hindustand,
“Life, my bold young bastards, according to my light,
“Is but a bucking galley by a band of monkeys manned.”

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