When I was a fighting-man, the kettle-drums they beat,The people scattered gold-dust before my horses feet;But now I am a great king, the people hound my trackWith poison in my wine-cup, and daggers at my back.
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About Robert E. Howard
Robert E. Howard was a 20th-century American pulp fiction writer. Robert Ervin Howard was an American writer who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. He created the character Conan the Barbarian and is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subgenre. Read more on Wikipedia →