Keep women, thrones and kingly lands ...
Keep women, thrones and kingly lands,
Grant me—to work all mankind dole
To cleave their skulls and split their hands,
To kill the body, damn the soul.
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. January 1928; titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY
Keep women, thrones and kingly lands,
Grant me—to work all mankind dole
To cleave their skulls and split their hands,
To kill the body, damn the soul.