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 My body would have died and my soul hovered by the bones that no one gathered. A ghost, I'd have wandered in Yün-nan, always looking for home. Over the graves of ten thousand soldiers, mournfully hovering." So the old man spoke, And I bid you listen to his words Have you not heard That the Prime Minister of K'ai-yüan, Sung K'ai-fu, Did not reward frontier exploits, lest a spirit of aggression should prevail? And have you not heard That the Prime Minster of T'ien-Pao, Yang Kuo-chung Desiring to win imperial favour, started a frontier war? But long before he could win the war, people had lost their temper; Ask the man with the broken arm in the village of Hsin-fēng! [ 204 ]