A prince survives by unseen acts.
At night the chief advisor knocked
at Frederick’s workroom in the tower
and found him formulating facts
for treatises on wing
(Rainer Maria Rilke)
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Based on Topics: Night PoemsBased on Keywords: workroom, treatises, advisor, formulating