{"collection":"cfu","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/bop/bop134.htm","path":"cfu/bop/bop134.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cfu/bop/bop134.htm","text":"The Book of Poetry, tr. by James Legge, [1876]\n\u2019Mong brothers three, who met that fate,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u2019Twas sad the first, Yen-hsi, to see.\n He stood alone; a hundred men\n \u00a0\u00a0Could show no other such as he. p. 146\n When to the yawning grave he came,\n \u00a0\u00a0Terror unnerved and shook his frame.\nWhy thus destroy our noblest men,\n \u00a0\u00a0To thee we cry, O azure Heaven!\n To save Yen-hsi from death, we would\n \u00a0\u00a0A hundred lives have freely given.\n2They flit about, the yellow birds,\n \u00a0\u00a0And on the mulberry trees rest find.\n Who buried were in Duke Mu's grave,\n \u00a0\u00a0Alive to awful death consigned?\n\u2019Mong brothers three, who met that fate,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u2019Twas sad the next, Chung-hang, to see.\n When on him pressed a hundred men,\n \u00a0\u00a0A match for all of them was he.\n When to the yawning grave he came,\n \u00a0\u00a0Terror unnerved and shook his frame.\nWhy thus destroy our noblest men,\n \u00a0\u00a0To thee we cry, O azure Heaven!\n To save Chung-hang from death, we would\n \u00a0\u00a0A hundred lives have freely given. p. 147\n3They flit about, the yellow birds,\n \u00a0\u00a0And rest upon the thorn trees find.\n Who buried were in Duke Mu's grave,\n \u00a0\u00a0Alive to awful death consigned?\n\u2019Mong brothers three, who met that fate,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u2019Twas sad the third, Ch\u00ean-hu, to see.\n A hundred men in desperate fight\n \u00a0\u00a0Successfully withstand could he.\n When to the yawning grave he came,\n \u00a0\u00a0Terror unnerved and shook his frame.\nWhy thus destroy our noblest men,\n \u00a0\u00a0To thee we cry, O azure Heaven!\n To save Ch\u00ean-hu from death, we would\n \u00a0\u00a0A hundred lives have freely given.","title":"The Book of Poetry: Book XI. The Odes of Ch\u2018in: VI. Huang Niao","type":"page"}