{"collection":"cfu","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/bop/bop124.htm","path":"cfu/bop/bop124.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cfu/bop/bop124.htm","text":"The Book of Poetry, tr. by James Legge, [1876]\n2The wild geese on the bushy jujube trees\n Attempt to settle, and are ill at ease;\u2014\n Su-su their wings go flapping in the breeze.\n The king's affairs admit of no delay;\n Our millets still unsown, we haste away.\n How shall our parents their requirements get?\n How in our absence shall their wants be met?\n O azure Heaven, that shinest there afar,\n When shall our homes receive us from the war?\n3The bushy mulberry trees the geese in rows\n Seek eager, and to rest around them close,\u2014\n With rustling loud, as disappointment grows.\n The king's affairs admit of no delay;\n To plant our rice and maize we cannot stay.\n How shall our parents find their wonted food?\n When we are gone, who will to them be good?\n O azure Heaven, that shinest there afar,\n When shall our homes receive us from the war?","title":"The Book of Poetry: Book X. The Odes of T\u2018ang: VIII. Pao Y\u00fc","type":"page"}