{"collection":"cfu","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/bop/bop074.htm","path":"cfu/bop/bop074.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cfu/bop/bop074.htm","text":"The Book of Poetry, tr. by James Legge, [1876]\n2Around the creepers thickly spread,\n \u00a0\u00a0On the green banks of the Ho. p. 82\n My native soil no more I tread;\n \u00a0\u00a0Into exile forth I go.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Far removed from kindred all,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Mother I a stranger call.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Though so called, she does not deign\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Me as child to entertain.\n3Around the creepers thickly spread,\n \u00a0\u00a0On the bank lips of the Ho.\n My native soil no more I tread;\n \u00a0\u00a0Into exile forth I go.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Far from all who bear my name,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Elder brother I would claim\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In a stranger, but he spurns\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Such a claim, and from me turns.","title":"The Book of Poetry: Book VI. The Odes of the Royal Domain: VII. Ko Lei","type":"page"}