The shades of night were falling faster...

The shades of night were falling faster ...
by Robert E. Howard

From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, April 14, 1926; titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY

1893319The shades of night were falling faster ...Robert E. Howard

The shades of night were falling faster,

The cows were coming from the pasture.

When through an outland city went

A youth whose garments were a tent.

His others hung within a glade

Filched and concealed by a coy maid.