T. E. Lawrence
(Lawrence of Arabia)

A man of no specific place or time,
fits timeless freedom best and desert space;
does not belong to bureaucratic zone.
Poet, stranger, writer, raider, fighter;
beacon, rare man of sensibility;
sees nature's beauty only artists see;
while military planner's eye assays
mountain pass, oasis, dune and wadi.
Tribal factions form camel cavalry
by magnet of his personality.
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