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Chinese poems
Chinese poems | Arthur Waley
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Poems explore love, courtship, Buddhism, philosophy, war, and other aspects of the culture of China
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Chinese poems | Arthur Waley
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“The Graveyard“

“What man's land is the graveyard?
It is the crowded home of ghosts -
Wise and foolish shoulder to shoulder.
The King of the Dead claims them all;
Man's fate knows no tarrying.“

- Traditional Chinese Burial Song for common people

merelybookish Beautiful! 4y
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