Re the onslaught of the Tatars in the thirteenth century
against eastern Europe:
In a clatter of lances and a swirl of dust,
they were off to the far adventure.
The result was:
Cities, because of their walls,
escaped
these horsemen; no village did.
As for the heroic but outmatched defenders:
They were Christian in the great good sense of this word.
(Citations from the historical novel by James Michener, Poland
(1983). Connoisseurs of
history might detect a parallel in present events.)
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