The oldest collection of Chinese poetry, more than three hundred songs, odes and hymns. Tr. Legge (en) and Granet (fr, incomplete).
They flit about, the yellow birds,
And rest upon the jujube trees.
Who followed duke Mu [to the grave] ?
Ziche Yansi.
And this Yansi,
Was a man above a hundred.
When he came to the grave,
He looked terrified and trembled.
Thou azure Heaven there !
Thou art destroying our good men.
Could he have been redeemed,
We should have given a hundred lives for him.
They flit about, the yellow birds,
And rest upon the mulberry trees.
Who followed duke Mu [to the grave] ?
Ziche Zhongheng.
And this Zhongheng,
Was a match for a hundred.
When he came to the grave,
He looked terrified and trembled.
Thou azure Heaven there !
Thou art destroying our good men.
Could he have been redeemed,
We should have given a hundred lives for him.
They flit about, the yellow birds,
And rest upon the thorn trees.
Who followed duke Mu [to the grave] ?
Ziche Qianhu.
And this Ziche Qianhu,
Could withstand a hundred men.
When he came to the grave,
He looked terrified and trembled.
Thou azure Heaven there !
Thou art destroying our good men.
Could he have been redeemed,
We should have given a hundred lives for him.
Legge 131
The Book of Odes – Shi Jing I. 11. (131) – Chinese off/on – Français/English
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