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Simeon Stylites
the Stylite
also: the Stylite
The Syrian ascetic who spent decades atop a pillar in penance and prayer; Rilke's stylite measures his own weakness endlessly against the Lord while worms drop from his sores onto the crowd below.
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- New Poems: The Other Part §26 a column-shaft
Simeon Stylites, who climbed a pillar to escape 'the people's smell' and pray alone; Rilke shows him measuring his weakness against the Lord while worms fall from his sores into the crowd's crowns.
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