I am MAN from the primal, I ...

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I am Man from the primal, I ...
by Robert E. Howard

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

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I am Man from the primal, I;

Huge of belly and red of hand

Swept with a flame that never shall die

Till the moon falls out of the reeling sky

And the sea is rent from the land.

Fool of the cosmos, sprite of the dust

Shaking the stars with my phallic lust.