Shi Jing 
– 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).
Shijing I. 6. (66)
My husband is away on service,
And I know not when he will return.
Where is he now ?
The fowls roost in their holes in the walls ;
And in the evening of the day,
The goats and cows come down [from the hill] ;
But my husband is away on service.
How can I but keep thinking of him ?
My husband is away on service,
Not for days [merely] or for months.
When will he come back to me ?
The fowls roost on their perches ;
And in the evening of the day,
The goats and cows come down down and home ;
But my husband is away on service.
Oh if he be but kept from hunger and thirst !
Legge 66
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