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SACRIFICAL PRAYER FOR THE DEAD ON MY OWN BEHALF by T'AO CH'IEN

First Line: THE YEAR IS 427
Last Line: I WONDER HOW DEATH WILL BE? %ALAS
Subject(s): CHINA - EARLY PERIOD (TO 200 B.C.); CHINA - SONG DYNASTY (960-1278); DEATH;

Poem Sources:

AN ANTHOLOGY OF CHINESE LITERATURE; BEGINNINGS TO 1911.
  OWEN, STEPHEN (ED. & TR.)
  (1996)
 



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