{"collection":"cfu","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/bop/bop034.htm","path":"cfu/bop/bop034.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cfu/bop/bop034.htm","text":"The Book of Poetry, tr. by James Legge, [1876]\n2Our chief, Sun Tz\u016d-chung, agreement has made,\n \u00a0\u00a0Our forces to join with Chen and with Sung.\n When shall we back from this service be led?\n \u00a0\u00a0Our hearts are all sad, our courage unstrung. p. 32\n3Here we are halting, and there we delay;\n \u00a0\u00a0Anon we soon lose our high-mettled steeds.\n The forest's gloom makes our steps go astray;\n \u00a0\u00a0Each thicket of trees our searching misleads.\n4For death as for life, at home or abroad,\n \u00a0\u00a0We pledged to our wives our faithfulest word.\n Their hands clasped in ours, together we vowed,\n \u00a0\u00a0We'd live to old age in sweetest accord.\n5This march to the south can end but in ill;\n \u00a0\u00a0Oh! never shall we our wives again meet.\n The word that we pledged we cannot fulfill;\n \u00a0\u00a0Us home returning they never will greet.","title":"The Book of Poetry: Book III. The Odes of P\u2018ei: VI. Chi Ku","type":"page"}