{"collection":"cfu","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/bop/bop105.htm","path":"cfu/bop/bop105.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cfu/bop/bop105.htm","text":"The Book of Poetry, tr. by James Legge, [1876]\n2If fields too large you seek to till,\n \u00a0\u00a0The weeds will only rise more strong.\n To try to gain men far away\n \u00a0\u00a0Will but your heart's distress prolong.\n3Things grow the best when to themselves\n \u00a0\u00a0Left, and to nature's vigor rare.\n How young and tender is the child,\n \u00a0\u00a0With his twin tufts of falling hair!\n But when you him erelong behold,\n \u00a0\u00a0That child shall cap of manhood wear!","title":"The Book of Poetry: Book VIII. The Odes of Ch\u2018i: VII. Fu T\u2018ien","type":"page"}