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They were there, in the distance dreaming

Henry Herbert Knibbs

First published January 2009
Type Poem

First published in poem "The Valley that God Forgot".
The editor of Robert E. Howard: Selected Poems found this poem in a Howard letter to H. P. Lovecraft, April 23, 1933 ("Dear Mr. Lovecraft: / I'm enclosing some of the latest views..."), and assumed Howard was the author.
Howard put the verse in quotation marks, but did not cite the source. The source is identified in The Collected Letters of Robert E. Howard Volume 2: 1930-1932, REH Foundation Press, footnote on p. 49.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
January 2009 Cover The Collected Poetry of Robert E. Howard The Robert E. Howard Foundation Press Collection 436
April 2009 Cover The Collected Poetry of Robert E. Howard The Robert E. Howard Foundation Press Collection 436
August 2009 Cover The Collected Poetry of Robert E. Howard The Robert E. Howard Foundation Press Collection 436