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RETURNING TO DWELL IN GARDENS AND FIELDS: 3 by T'AO CH'IEN

First Line: IN THE OUTLANDS FEW THINGS TROUBLE A MAN
Last Line: AND THEY WILL FALL TO RUIN WITH COMMON WEEDS
Subject(s): CHINA - EARLY PERIOD (TO 200 B.C.); FARM LIFE;

Poem Sources:

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



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