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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 10 — The odes of Tang

114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125

Shijing I. 10. (119)

There is a solitary russet pear tree,
[But] its leaves are luxuriant.
Alone I walk unbefriended ; –
Is it because there are no other people ?
But none are like the sons of one's father.
O ye travellers,
Why do ye not sympathize with me ?
Without brothers as I am,
Why do ye not help me ?

There is a solitary russet pear tree,
[But] its leaves are abundant.
Alone I walk uncared for ; –
Is it that there are not other people ?
But none are like those of one's own surname.
O ye travellers,
Why do ye not sympathize with me ?
Without brothers as I am,
Why do ye not help me ?

Legge 119

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