{"collection":"cfu","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/bop/bop057.htm","path":"cfu/bop/bop057.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cfu/bop/bop057.htm","text":"The Book of Poetry, tr. by James Legge, [1876]\n2What I wished for you denied;\n Here in Hs\u00fc I must abide.\n And in your decision's spite\n I must hold my purpose right. p. 59\n You, unkind, my purpose spurn;\u2014\n Not to Wei can I return.\n I must slight your views as nought,\n For I cannot quench my thought.\n3\u00a0\u00a0I'll climb the sides of that steep mound,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And pluck the lilies growing there.\n \u00a0\u00a0Thoughts in my woman's heart abound,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And every thought might blossom bear.\n In Hs\u00fc the people all my purpose blame;\n Their childish, hasty thoughts cause me no shame.\n4I would through the land have gone,\n Passed where fields of rich wheat shone,\n Prayer have made to Ch\u2018i\u2019s great state,\n Help have sought for Wei's sore strait.\n Nobles who o\u2019er Wei preside,\n Zeal like this you should not chide.\n Hundreds are the plans you make;\n Best the course I wished to take!","title":"The Book of Poetry: Book IV. The Odes of Yung: X. Tsai Ch\u2018ih","type":"page"}