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Despot’s Clay Army
- The Massachusetts Review
- Massachusetts Review, Inc.
- Volume 62, Number 1, Spring 2021
- p. 45
- 10.1353/mar.2021.0008
- Article
- Additional Information
Abstract:
Chinese despot Qin Shi Huang / In the Second century Before the Common Era / Ordered all wise books burned / And all scholars and poets buried alive / And in his tomb / Hid in ambush / An army of terracotta warriors / In case the people became wiser. / But with the passage of time / All the wisdom in books was restored / By those who memorized the books […]