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BURIAL SONG: THE GRAVEYARD, by                    
First Line: What man's land is the graveyard
Last Line: Man's fate knows no tarrying
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.);funerals; Burials


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.





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