Robert Ervin Howard

“ Golden serpents with crystal eyes.
Why should men grow strange and cold,
Like a marble heart in a breast of gold?
Their eyes are ice and they look strange tales,
They carve the mist with their long jade nails. ”

“ Scent the gloom where dead men grope;
They have stabbed their hearts with a golden sword
And hanged themselves with a silken rope.
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