{"collection":"cfu","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/bop/bop049.htm","path":"cfu/bop/bop049.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cfu/bop/bop049.htm","text":"The Book of Poetry, tr. by James Legge, [1876]\n2As grows on wall the Tribulus,\n \u00a0\u00a0Which vainly to remove we try;\n So let what's in the harem done\n \u00a0\u00a0By us without unspoken lie.\n If on details we condescend,\n The narrative would have no end.\n3As grows on wall the Tribulus,\n \u00a0\u00a0And cannot in the sheaf be tied;\n So let what's in the harem done\n \u00a0\u00a0By us without untouched abide.\n If truth were in the tale laid bare,\n How foul a scene were painted there!","title":"The Book of Poetry: Book IV. The Odes of Yung: II. Ch\u2018iang Yu T\u2018z\u016d","type":"page"}