The oldest collection of Chinese poetry, more than three hundred songs, odes and hymns. Tr. Legge (en) and Granet (fr, incomplete).
A flock of egrets is flying,
About the marsh there in the west.
My visitors came,
With an [elegant] carriage like those birds.
There, [in their States], not disliked ;
Here, [in Zhou], never tired of ; –
They are sure, day and night,
To penetrate their fame.
Legge 278
The Book of Odes – Shi Jing IV. 2. (278) – Chinese off/on – Français/English
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Poetry, Livre des Odes, Canon des Poèmes.
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