I do not sing of a paradise ...

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I do not sing of a paradise ...
by Robert E. Howard

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

1893987I do not sing of a paradise ...Robert E. Howard


I do not sing of a paradise

I sing of a world of lust,

Of harlots, thieves and swinish vice

And dust that fades to dust.