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Absalom
David's beautiful, rebellious son, who seized the throne and his father's concubines, then was caught by his famous hair in a terebinth and killed by Joab (2 Samuel 15-18). Rilke's poem rides with him in his glory before the branch takes him.
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- New Poems: The Other Part §15 his warm hair
Absalom, David's beautiful rebel son; his heavy hair, which he sometimes hated, is what catches him in the terebinth and undoes him (2 Samuel 18).
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