Before setting out, the soldiers sang with passion and grief, vowing to defend their homeland to the death.
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The Records of the Grand Historian tells how 项羽, surrounded at 垓下, drank with his consort 虞姬 and sang a sad song of farewell. From scenes like this comes 慷慨悲歌 'to sing with passion and grief', said of heroes facing death.
