James, son of Zebedee major religious figure in Christian tradition and one of the Twelve Apostles
James 3:5-6 http://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/book.php?book=James&chapter=3&verse=25&t=1, KJV
“Our spirits leaped, hosannas of destruction,
Like desert lilies forked with tongues of fire.”
"To a Pet Cobra," lines 23-24
Sons of the Mistral (1926)
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