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Was Wind like some past knight, a friend
who, torn to serve or win the hand,
as liege to Sire (Queen’s paramour),
severed the land with blood and mar?

Or chieftain, Moses’ kin, who tore
the Assembly asunder from under the pair
with insolent scoffs?1 By his censer
his defiance was censored: cancer.

Not lust nor contempt drew Wind’s rancor.
Yet like the knight, Wind was a dancer,
martial fierce. As chieftain, a voice
dissentient, where his words entice. . .

1 Story from Numbers Chapter 16, verses 1-35 about Korah, son of Izhar, a chieftain among the Levites.