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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=365929" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The End Of The Ming</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Out in the hinterland the wild wolves call<br>While the soldiers shiver, strung along The Great Wall, <br>Their hands on their quivers, with their arrows, full flight <br>As they listen for the Manchu troops in the night.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They would beat off the peasants at the Shanhai Pass<br>As The Wall held firm, for the Ming's last gasp, <br>But the rebels beat the army of the last of the Ming, <br>In the city of the Emperor, the Old Beijing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And they fired the city under Li Zicheng<br>While the Emperor despaired, he was called Chongzhen, <br>He threw a final feast for the House of the Ming, <br>And he called for his daughter, the Lady Chang Ping.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When the feast was over they awaited his word<br>But he slew each one with the point of his sword, <br>And his daughter too, bowed down to his will, <br>Then he fled the palace grounds, to Jingshan Hill.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And there with a rope on a myrtle tree<br>Chongzhen hung himself as high as could be, <br>While the leader of the peasants, this Li Zicheng, <br>Tried to found the Shun, as he buried Chongzhen.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But a General of the Ming, one Wu Sangui<br>He opened up the gates of The Wall one day, <br>And the Manchu troops streamed through to Beijing<br>Where they finished off the army, and Li Zicheng.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was written in the stars, shining down on The Wall<br>That a dynasty rises as a dynasty falls, <br>But the soldiers on The Wall, now finished with the Ming, <br>Still keep a steady watch for the House of Qing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For out in the hinterland the wild wolves call<br>And a soldier's duty is to guard The Great Wall, <br>For it little matters here about the Emperor's plan, <br>Just the wives and children of the soldiers of the Han!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+Lewis+Paget">David Lewis Paget</a><div class=q>
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While the soldiers shiver, strung along The Great Wall, 
Their hands on their quivers, with their arrows, full flight 
As they listen for the Manchu troops in the night.

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