person
Uzziah
also: the leprous king
King of Judah struck with leprosy on his forehead for usurping the priests' incense-offering (2 Chronicles 26); Rilke's 'aussätzige König' wears the disease like a terrible second sovereignty.
Reading notes
- New Poems: The Other Part §17 the leprosy broke out on his brow
King Uzziah, struck with leprosy on his forehead for usurping the priestly incense (2 Chronicles 26); the disease stands beneath his crown like a second, untouchable kingship.
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