Robert Ervin Howard

“ We count our gains and our losses
In all of the fourth rate rings.
We are the bums and the slackers
Swiggers of Ancient Crow.
Yet the fans pay sixteen smackers
To see us knocked for a row.
Bout losers and bout forsakers
They hand us a-many slams,
For we are the set-ups and fakers,
We are the fourth-rate hams!
We are the takers of slams and blips! ”

“ Far below lumbered on to the east and the dawn—
When all men are gone.
Shall not they,
Hill and stream,
As today
Gleam and dream,
Forgetting forever in majesty still
That men climbed the hill or died on the river. ”

“ When it came to rough-and-tumble,
He laid the toughest battlers low
With never a miss or fumble.
Some men stammer and halt and pause
At the sight of lover's moons,
But Faro married a hundred squaws
And a couple of octaroons. ”

“ Ageyne another trull in Chicagoe.
And many a damsel hadde proved fickle,
"Gude sirs," quote, "A maiden for an ickle
"Her pantys taken down for any manne,
"I hode you sirs, ageyne the whole damn clanne." ”

“ 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. ”

“ And Carl hit the floor, by Hell!
And the crowd yelled, "You're the boy Jack!"
This work was published before January 1, 1928, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. ”

“ Behind our boulders kneeling e hurled out lead below.
Many a bastard there
Of that dark band
Clutched with a nerveless hand
The mocking air.
Man after man, one by one
Dropped in the eye of the sun
To the crack of the ball ”