{"collection":"cfu","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/bop/bop020.htm","path":"cfu/bop/bop020.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cfu/bop/bop020.htm","text":"The Book of Poetry, tr. by James Legge, [1876]\n2You say that sparrow has a horn.\u2014\n \u00a0\u00a0How could it else bore through your house?\n You say this trial is a proof\n \u00a0\u00a0That I exchanged betrothal vows.\n But though you've made me here appear in court,\n Yet at betrothal what you did fell short.\n3You say the rat's teeth are complete.\u2014\n \u00a0\u00a0How could it else bore through your wall?\n You say this trial proves my vows\n \u00a0\u00a0Of plighted troth were perfect all.\n But though to court you've forced me here to come,\n My will is firm;\u2014I'll not with you go home.","title":"The Book of Poetry: Book II. The Odes of Shao and the South: VI. Hsing Lu","type":"page"}