{"collection":"cfu","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/bop/bop098.htm","path":"cfu/bop/bop098.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cfu/bop/bop098.htm","text":"The Book of Poetry, tr. by James Legge, [1876]\n2\u00a0\u00a0Of Ch\u00ean and Wei along\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The lucid waters flow,\n \u00a0\u00a0And on their banks a throng\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Of men and women go.\n \u00a0\u00a0To gentleman a lady says,\n \u00a0\u00a0\"Have you been there to see the plays?\"\n \u00a0\u00a0\"I've been,\" says he, and she replies,\n \u00a0\u00a0\"Let's go again and feast our eyes.\n \u00a0\u00a0The ground beyond the Wei you'll find\n \u00a0\u00a0Large, and for pleasure well designed.\"\n \u00a0\u00a0So gentlemen and ladies wend\n \u00a0\u00a0Their way, in sport the day to spend,\n And to each other oft small peonies extend.","title":"The Book of Poetry: Book VII. The Odes of Ch\u00eang: XXI. Ch\u00ean Wei","type":"page"}