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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 — °ê ­· Lessons from the states
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
12 13 14 15
Chapter 3 — ªõ ­· 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. (27)

Green is the upper robe,
Green with a yellow lining !
The sorrow of my heart, –
How can it cease ?

Green is the upper robe,
Green the upper, and yellow the lower garment !
The sorrow of my heart, –
How can it be forgotten ?

[Dyed] green has been the silk ; –
It was you who did it.
[But] I think of the ancients,
That I may be kept from doing wrong.

Linen, fine or coarse,
Is cold when worn in the wind.
I think of the ancients,
And find what is in my heart.

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