{"collection":"cfu","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/bop/bop046.htm","path":"cfu/bop/bop046.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cfu/bop/bop046.htm","text":"The Book of Poetry, tr. by James Legge, [1876]\n2There stands the New tower grand and high,\n Where with still stream the Ho flows by;\u2014\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0For bride a palace rare.\n To Wei she came, a mate to find;\n She sought a husband young and kind,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0But found this misshaped bear.\n3As when the net for fish they set,\n And lo! a goose ensnared they get,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0They stamp with sudden ire;\n So might she stamp who came to wed\n The genial son, and in his stead\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Got but the humpbacked sire.","title":"The Book of Poetry: Book III. The Odes of P\u2018ei: XVIII. Hsin T\u2018ai","type":"page"}