{"collection":"cfu","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/bop/bop111.htm","path":"cfu/bop/bop111.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cfu/bop/bop111.htm","text":"The Book of Poetry, tr. by James Legge, [1876]\n2\u00a0\u00a0On the F\u00ean's banks the poor are found,\n \u00a0\u00a0Who pluck the mulberry leaves around,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A little gain to make.\n \u00a0\u00a0In grace and beauty like a flower,\n \u00a0\u00a0That officer himself doth lower,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Such small mean ways to take.\n The cars of state to marshal is his charge;\u2014\n Strange such high post his mind should not enlarge!\n3Where the F\u00ean bends to join the Ho,\n \u00a0\u00a0For ox-lip leaves the people go,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Some nourishment to find. p. 118\n \u00a0\u00a0That officer we gemlike call,\n \u00a0\u00a0Yet shrinks he not from ways as small,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0To greed too much inclined.\n The ruler's kindred he has for his care;\u2014\n Should he not show a loftier character?","title":"The Book of Poetry: Book IX. The Odes of Wei: II. F\u00ean Ch\u00fc Ju","type":"page"}