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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 8 — The odes of Qi

96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106

Shijing I. 8. (96)

' The cock has crowed ;
The court is full. '
But it was not the cock that was crowing ; –
It was the sound of the blue flies.

' The east is bright ;
The court is crowded. '
But it was not the east that was bright ; –
It was the light of the moon coming forth.

' The insects are flying in buzzing crowds ;
It would be sweet to lie by you and dream. '
But the assembled officers will be going home ; –
Let them not hate both me and you. '

Legge 96

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