David Crosby, the “young rock n’ roller”, in words of Pete Seeger, who through the Byrds made Ecclesiastics 3 famous passed away recently.

Eccelesiastics 3 has a word in it you might not be familiar with — “to rend”.

Rend is a word that has fallen out of popularity since the 1960s, but it means to violently tear apart something like a country, often in a sorrowful fashion.

You might say the “American Civil War rend the United States”.