{"collection":"cfu","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/bop/bop011.htm","path":"cfu/bop/bop011.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cfu/bop/bop011.htm","text":"The Book of Poetry, tr. by James Legge, [1876]\n2We gather and gather the plantains;\n \u00a0\u00a0Now off the ears we must tear.\n Yes, gather and gather the plantains,\n \u00a0\u00a0And now the seeds are laid bare.\n3We gather and gather the plantains,\n \u00a0\u00a0The seeds in our skirts are placed.\n Yes, gather and gather the plantains,\n \u00a0\u00a0Ho! safe in the girdled waist.","title":"The Book of Poetry: Book I. The Odes of Chou and the South: VIII. Fou I","type":"page"}