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Early in the morning I gazed at the eastern skies ...

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Early in the morning I gazed at the eastern skies ... (1926)
by Robert E. Howard

From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, June 23, 1926; titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY

1893970Early in the morning I gazed at the eastern skies ...1926Robert E. Howard

Early in the morning I gazed at the eastern skies
Reddening to rose from their first gray of steel.
Glowering in the sun-rise,’mid the golden sun-rise
Dark against the sun-rise loomed the grim Bastille.

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