Futility ("Time races on and none can stay the tread...")

First published in The Daniel Baker Collegian, the newspaper of Daniel Baker College, which Howard attended when he was 20.
Sometimes referred to a version 2 of the 2 poems with this title written by Howard.
Line 24 appears in The Dark Barbarian, ed. Don Herron.
The last 8 lines of this poem appear as a heading for a story titled "The End of Days" by David C. Smith published in Chacal #1, Winter 1976.