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Robert E. Howard

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What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie?
I, who was born in a naked land and bred in the open sky.
The subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing;
Rush in and die, dogs—I was a man before I was a king.

 
Robert E. Howard

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My songs that found no tongue;
Nobler than any fact
My wish that failed of act.

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