{"collection":"cfu","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/bop/bop128.htm","path":"cfu/bop/bop128.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cfu/bop/bop128.htm","text":"The Book of Poetry, tr. by James Legge, [1876]\n2When told to search round Shou-yang's base,\n \u00a0\u00a0Sow thistles there to find,\n The search you'd think a hopeless case,\n \u00a0\u00a0Nor would the counsel mind.\n And so, when men their stories feign,\n \u00a0\u00a0Do not approve in haste.\n Put them aside, put them aside;\n \u00a0\u00a0Assent should be repressed.\n \u2019Tis thus the stories told by men\n \u00a0\u00a0Soon unregarded rest.\n3When told on th\u2019 east of Shou-yang hill\n \u00a0\u00a0For mustard plants to try,\n You'd know the quest would speed but ill,\n \u00a0\u00a0And let the words pass by.\n And so, when men their stories feign,\n \u00a0\u00a0No hearing to them lend.\n \u00a0\u00a0Put them aside, put them aside,\n Your faith loth to extend.\n \u2019Tis thus the stories told by men\n \u00a0\u00a0Come shortly to an end.","title":"The Book of Poetry: Book X. The Odes of T\u2018ang: XII. Ts\u2018ai Ling","type":"page"}