Robert Ervin Howard

“ THE PARROT
When the king and his folk lay dead,
And the murderous hordes had gone,
He gnawed through his cage and fled
To the swallowing woods alone;
But, after an endless age,
He was taken by a man once more ”

“ In a 1934 letter to H. P. Lovecraft, Howard discussed his use of a seemingly prescient parrot in the Conan story "Iron Shadows on the Moon." His recollections, and the reconstruction, appear as follows:
I'm afraid I can't claim originality in regard to the parrot and his repetition of the god's invocation [in “Iron Shadows on the Moon”] . I got the idea from a poem of Noyes', entitled, I believe, 'The Parrot". ”

“ The longest-living author of this work died in 1936, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 86 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works. ”