{"collection":"cfu","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/bop/bop071.htm","path":"cfu/bop/bop071.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cfu/bop/bop071.htm","text":"The Book of Poetry, tr. by James Legge, [1876]\n2\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Fretted the waters seem,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Yet gently flows the stream;\u2014\n A bundle of thorns twill not bear.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Guarding Fu here we roam,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Wives and children at home,\n All absent our toils who should share.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0We think of them ever;\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Thought parts from them never;\u2014\n What month shall we homeward repair?\n3\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Fretted the waters seem,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Yet gently flows the stream;\n The reed bundle powerless to bear.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Guarding Hs\u00fc here we roam,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Wives and children at home,\n All absent our toils who should share.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0We think of them ever;\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Thought parts from them never;\u2014\n What month shall we homeward repair?","title":"The Book of Poetry: Book VI. The Odes of the Royal Domain: VI. Yang Chih Shui","type":"page"}