The Gods Remember (Howard)

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The Gods Remember—draft
by Robert Ervin Howard

An early draft, somewhat different from another version that begins “The glories of the ages”; a titled version is included in a list of REH poems that Kline possessed, though it is listed as 50 lines, compared to this version’s 16 lines. First published in The Collected Letters of Robert E. Howard, vol. 1 (2007), in a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. October 1927.

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The Gods Remember (draft)

Lost wonders of the ages
Lie smoldered into embers—
  The naked breasts of Isis
Baal-pteor still remembers.

When Time has left his turret
These memories shall last—
  Astarte’s dimpled shoulders
The ivory thighs of Bast.

Tyre’s towers lie in ruins,
And Babel’s shrines are rotten—
  Where are the kings that worshipped?
The Ruler has forgotten.

He dreams of strange eyed mermaids
He kissed by nameless seas—
  The times he lay in pleasure
Between Mylitta’s knees.)


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