PoemPermanent catalogue Work

Empire’s Destiny

2textual states0Characters
SectionFinished and Professional

Opening lines

Bab-ilu’s women gazed upon our spears,And roses flung, and sang to see us ride.We built a glory for the marching yearsAnd starred our throne with silver nails of pride.

Textual states

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Surviving manuscript evidence — exact textual state unresolved

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Original typescript source — legacy d1Howard typescript
Extent1 pageCompletenessComplete

Textual-state mapping: Exact textual state unresolved

Physical extent: One catalogued typescript unit; two complete untitled poems share the sheet

TSS: 90009

Original typescript sheet containing the complete untitled Empire’s Destiny cut and the complete untitled When Death Drops Her Veil cut. The source calls both d1, but that label does not identify which permanent Empire’s Destiny textual state is present.

Source: Glenn Lord TSS catalogue/inventory; The Collected Poetry of Robert E. Howard, Volume One.

Characters in this Work

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No qualifying individual Characters or named entities were found in the catalogued textual states of this poem.

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