The oldest collection of Chinese poetry, more than three hundred songs, odes and hymns. Tr. Legge (en) and Granet (fr, incomplete).
Green is the upper robe,
Green with a yellow lining !
The sorrow of my heart, –
How can it cease ?
Green is the upper robe,
Green the upper, and yellow the lower garment !
The sorrow of my heart, –
How can it be forgotten ?
[Dyed] green has been the silk ; –
It was you who did it.
[But] I think of the ancients,
That I may be kept from doing wrong.
Linen, fine or coarse,
Is cold when worn in the wind.
I think of the ancients,
And find what is in my heart.
Legge 27
The Book of Odes – Shi Jing I. 3. (27) – Chinese off/on – Français/English
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