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Shi Jing Introduction Table of content – The Book of Odes

The oldest collection of Chinese poetry, more than three hundred songs, odes and hymns. Tr. Legge (en) and Granet (fr, incomplete).

Section I — Lessons from the states
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
12 13 14 15
Chapter 3 — The odes of Bei

26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44

Shijing I. 3. (37)

The dolichos on that high and sloping mound ; –
How wide apart are [now] its joints !
O ye uncles,
Why have ye delayed these many days ?

Why do they rest without stirring ?
It must be they expect allies.
Why do they prolong the time ?
There must be a reason for their conduct.

Our fox-furs are frayed and worn.
Came our carriages not eastwards ?
O ye uncles,
You do not sympathize with us.

Fragments, and a remnant,
Children of dispersion [are we] !
O ye uncles,
Notwithstanding your full robes, your ears are stopped.

Legge 37

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