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Heyster Regiment of Horse." The poem recounts the adventures of Christopher Rilke, who travels with a company of soldiers and then, after a night in a castle with a lover, fights and dies in a war in Turkey and is mourned by an old woman.
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The Tale of the Love and Death of Cornet
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Rilke, Rainer Marie trans. M.D. Herter Norton (1932).
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