Note: This poem is sometimes called version 3 of the 3 Howard poems with this title. The poem is now considered to be lines 81-96 of version 2 of this poem ("The sin and jest of the times am I..."), although these lines were not included in published copies of that version prior to 2009. First published in Shadow of Dreams, Grant. Taken from a Howard letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. March 1928 ("Salaam: / Glad you're writing these days..."). Lines 5-8 are the same as lines 21-24 of version 1 ("For I, with the shape of my kin, the ape...").