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A PROTEST IN THE SIXTH YEAR OF CH'IEN FU (A.D. 879), by                    
First Line: The hills and rivers of the lowland country
Last Line: Is made out of ten thousand corpses.
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Freedom; Protest, Social; Liberty


THE hills and rivers of the lowland country
You have made your battle-ground.
How do you suppose the people who live there
Will procure "firewood and hay"?
Do not let me hear you talking together
About titles and promotions;
For a single general's reputation
Is made out of ten thousand corpses.




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