{"collection":"cfu","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/bop/bop040.htm","path":"cfu/bop/bop040.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cfu/bop/bop040.htm","text":"The Book of Poetry, tr. by James Legge, [1876]\n2\u00a0\u00a0They rest and do not stir;\u2014\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Do they allies expect?\n \u00a0\u00a0Wherefore protract the time?\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Why us so much neglect?\n Some reason they could surely plead\n For conduct, strange in this our need. p. 40\n3\u00a0\u00a0In chariots of the west,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Hither from danger borne,\n \u00a0\u00a0In Wei we live depressed,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Our fox furs frayed and worn.\n Ye nobles, uncles, sooth to say,\n For us no sympathy display.\n4\u00a0\u00a0A remnant small of Li,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Driven from our proper home;\n \u00a0\u00a0Children dispersed, we hoped\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0That help from Wei would come.\n Alas! though grand the robes you wear,\n You stop your ears against our prayer.","title":"The Book of Poetry: Book III. The Odes of P\u2018ei: XII. Mao Ch\u2018iu","type":"page"}