{"collection":"cfu","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/bop/bop045.htm","path":"cfu/bop/bop045.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cfu/bop/bop045.htm","text":"The Book of Poetry, tr. by James Legge, [1876]\n2Oh! the maiden, so handsome and coy,\n \u00a0\u00a0For a pledge gave a slim rosy reed.\n Than the reed is she brighter, my joy;\n \u00a0\u00a0On her loveliness how my thoughts feed!\n3In the pastures a t\u2018i blade she sought,\n \u00a0\u00a0And she gave it, so elegant, rare.\n Oh! the grass does not dwell in my thought,\n \u00a0\u00a0But the donor, more elegant, fair.","title":"The Book of Poetry: Book III. The Odes of P\u2018ei: XVII. Ching N\u00fc","type":"page"}