詩
經
Shi Jing 
– 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).
Shijing II. 8. (234)
Every plant is yellow ;
Every day we march.
Every man is moving about,
Doing service in some quarter of the kingdom.
Every plant is purple ;
Every man is torn from his wife.
Alas for us employed on these expeditions !
How are we alone dealt with as if we were not men ?
We are not rhinoceroses, we are not tigers,
To be kept in these desolate wilds.
Alas for us employed on these expeditions !
Morning and night we have no leisure.
The long-tailed foxes,
May keep among the dark grass.
And our box-carts,
Keep moving along the great roads.
Legge 234
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