{"collection":"cfu","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/bop/bop073.htm","path":"cfu/bop/bop073.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cfu/bop/bop073.htm","text":"The Book of Poetry, tr. by James Legge, [1876]\n2\u00a0\u00a0Caught is the pheasant in the snare,\n \u00a0\u00a0Avoided by the cautious hare.\n \u00a0\u00a0So those who duty promptly do\n \u00a0\u00a0Find cause their loyal zeal to rue,\n \u00a0\u00a0While one whose ends are base and mean\n \u00a0\u00a0Contrives from harm himself to screen.\n \u00a0\u00a0When I was in my youthful prime,\n \u00a0\u00a0No strange events e\u2019er marked the time;\n \u00a0\u00a0But now those days have passed away,\n \u00a0\u00a0And sorrows meet us day by day:\u2014\n I would that I might sleep, and sleep for aye! p. 81\n3\u00a0\u00a0Into the trap the pheasant flies,\n \u00a0\u00a0Which the hare shuns with cautious eyes.\n \u00a0\u00a0So those who duty promptly do\n \u00a0\u00a0Find cause their loyal zeal to rue,\n \u00a0\u00a0While one whose ends are base and mean\n \u00a0\u00a0Contrives from harm himself to screen.\n \u00a0\u00a0When I was in my youthful prime,\n \u00a0\u00a0No toilsome tasks distressed the time;\n \u00a0\u00a0But in these latter days of life,\n \u00a0\u00a0Our miseries are waxen rife:\n O for the sleep unbroke by sound of strife!","title":"The Book of Poetry: Book VI. The Odes of the Royal Domain: VI. T\u2018u Y\u00fcan","type":"page"}