Robert E. Howard - A Word from the Outer Dark lyrics

My Ruthless hands still clutch at life- Still like a shoreless sea My soul beats on in rage and strife. You may not shackle me. My leopard eyes are still untamed, they hold a darksome light- A fierce and brooding gleam unnamed that pierced the primeval night. Rear mighty temples to your god- I lurk where shadows sway, Till, when your drowsy guards shall not, To leap and rend and slay For I would hurl your cities down And I would break your shrines And give the site of every town To thistles and to vines. Higher the walls of Nineveh And prouder Babel's spires- I bellowed from the desert way- They crumbled in my fires. For all the works of cultured man Must fare and fade and fall I am the Dark Barbarian That towers over all.