{"collection":"cfu","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/bop/bop192.htm","path":"cfu/bop/bop192.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cfu/bop/bop192.htm","text":"The Book of Poetry, tr. by James Legge, [1876]\nThe Mien Shui; allusive. Bewailing the disorder of the times and the general indifference to it, and tracing it to the slanderers encouraged by men in authority.\n2Their bed the mighty waters leave,\n \u00a0\u00a0And ruin spread the country o\u2019er.\n The sky on wing the falcons cleave;\n \u00a0\u00a0High and yet higher still they soar.\n So is it with the lawless crew,\n \u00a0\u00a0Whose evil courses know no bound.\n I think of them, and start to do.\n \u00a0\u00a0Alas! I go but round and round.\n Still in my heart fast dwells its grief;\n I vainly strive to find relief. p. 225\n3With volume vast the waters flow,\n \u00a0\u00a0But still within their channel run.\n And swiftly as the falcons go,\n \u00a0\u00a0The vault that copes the hill they shun.\n And can we then no method find\n \u00a0\u00a0To check the talk that fills the land?\n No means devise to curb or bind\n \u00a0\u00a0The idle tongue and wanton hand?\n Watch, friends, yourselves; watch reverently,\n And slanderous tongues will silent be!","title":"The Book of Poetry: Book III. The Decade of T\u2018ung Kung: IX. Mien Shui","type":"page"}