{"collection":"cfu","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/bop/bop012.htm","path":"cfu/bop/bop012.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cfu/bop/bop012.htm","text":"The Book of Poetry, tr. by James Legge, [1876]\n2Many the fagots bound and piled;\n \u00a0\u00a0The thorns I'd hew still more to make.\n As brides, those girls their new homes seek;\n \u00a0\u00a0Their colts to feed I'd undertake.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Like the broad Han are they,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Through which one cannot dive;\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And like the Kiang's long stream,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Wherewith no raft can strive.\n3Many the fagots bound and piled;\n \u00a0\u00a0The southernwood I'd cut for more.\n As brides, those girls their new homes seek;\n \u00a0\u00a0Food for their colts I'd bring large store.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Like the broad Han are they,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Through which one cannot dive;\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And like the Kiang's long stream,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Wherewith no raft can strive.","title":"The Book of Poetry: Book I. The Odes of Chou and the South: IX. Han Kuang","type":"page"}