ELEGY Poem: ELEGY, by Tao Yuanming (China’s Dong Jin Dynasty)

Translated by Huang Guosheng

The relatives probably remained in sorrow,
But the others had already sung the happy song.
What to say to the dead?
Only the corpse is left to be buried under the mountain long.

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