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The Count of Brederode
Brederode
Scion of an old Dutch noble house; Rilke's poem shows the last count escaping Turkish pursuers by riding his horse into a river.
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- New Poems §55 boy of princely blood
The last Count of Brederode, of an old Dutch house, escaping Turkish pursuers by spurring his horse into a river.
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