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

Title: Futility ("Time races on and none can stay the tread...") Title Record # 1487358
Author: Robert E. Howard
Date: 1926-05-25
Type: POEM
Language: English

Note: 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.

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
Echoes from an Iron Harp	1972-00-00	Robert E. Howard	Donald M. Grant		$6.00^?$: US dollar	109	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Alicia Austin
West Is West & Others	2006-02-00	Robert E. Howard	Rob Roehm and Alex Runions	216466	$23.50^?$: US dollar	236	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
West Is West & Others	2006-02-00	Robert E. Howard	Rob Roehm and Alex Runions	216422	$13.03^?$: US dollar	236	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll
West Is West & Others	2007-04-00	Robert E. Howard	Roehm's Room Press		$24.95^?$: US dollar	236	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
West Is West & Others	2007-04-00	Robert E. Howard	Roehm's Room Press		$14.95^?$: US dollar	236	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll
The Collected Poetry of Robert E. Howard	2009-01-00	Robert E. Howard	The Robert E. Howard Foundation Press		$59.00^?$: US dollar	lxxix+ 728	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
The Collected Poetry of Robert E. Howard	2009-04-00	Robert E. Howard	The Robert E. Howard Foundation Press		$59.00^?$: US dollar	lxxix+ 728	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
The Collected Poetry of Robert E. Howard	2009-08-00	Robert E. Howard	The Robert E. Howard Foundation Press		$59.00^?$: US dollar	lxxix+ 728	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
Halloween at the Dog and Duck	2009-10-30	Robert E. Howard	Dennis McHaney		$10.00^?$: US dollar	40	ph^?Pamphlet. Used for short (in page count), unbound, staple-bound, or otherwise lightly bound publications.	coll	Virgil Finlay
Robert E. Howard: Selected Poems	2009-11-00	Robert E. Howard	Frank Coffman		$37.00^?$: US dollar	xxix+ 527	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
Robert E. Howard: Selected Poems	2009-11-00	Robert E. Howard	Frank Coffman		$23.50^?$: US dollar	xxix+ 527	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll
The Book of The Howard Review: The Howard Review Anthology	2010-12-00	Robert E. Howard	Dennis McHaney		$14.95^?$: US dollar	xiv+ 230	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll	J. Allen St. John
School Days in the Post Oaks	2011-06-14	Rob Roehm	The Robert E. Howard Foundation Press		$33.00^?$: US dollar	313	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	non-fic
School Days in the Post Oaks	2011-06-14	Rob Roehm	The Robert E. Howard Foundation Press		$20.00^?$: US dollar	313	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	non-fic

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