{"collection":"cfu","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/bop/bop104.htm","path":"cfu/bop/bop104.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cfu/bop/bop104.htm","text":"The Book of Poetry, tr. by James Legge, [1876]\n2The dolichos five kinds of shoes supplies,\n \u00a0\u00a0Made always so that two shall form a pair.\n On caps they match the strings that serve for ties,\n \u00a0\u00a0The same in length, not differing a hair. p. 110\n The road to Lu all plain and easy lies,\n \u00a0\u00a0By which Ch\u2018i\u2019s daughter joined her husband there.\n Since she has traveled that way leaving you,\n Why do you her continue to pursue?\n3Hemp seed to sow, this is the course we take,\u2014\n \u00a0\u00a0The acres lengthwise and across we dress.\n Taking a wife, the thing at once we make\n \u00a0\u00a0Known to our parents, and their leave possess.\n Since, prince of Lu, Ch\u2018i\u2019s daughter thus you took;\u2014\n Why on her evil ways indulgent look?\n4How do we act when firewood we would split?\n \u00a0\u00a0\u2019Tis through the ax in hand that we succeed.\n Taking a wife, this form we must admit,\u2014\n \u00a0\u00a0Without the go-between we cannot speed.\n When you brought home your wife, all this was done;\u2014\n Why let her now to such excesses run?","title":"The Book of Poetry: Book VIII. The Odes of Ch\u2018i: VI. Nan Shan","type":"page"}