{"collection":"cfu","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/bop/bop194.htm","path":"cfu/bop/bop194.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cfu/bop/bop194.htm","text":"The Book of Poetry, tr. by James Legge, [1876]\n2Hear, minister of war, the accusing word!\n We are the taloned soldiers of our lord,\n \u00a0\u00a0And near his person should have rest.\n But you from court have sent us far away,\n Where ceaselessly we toil from day to day,\n \u00a0\u00a0By constant misery oppressed.\n3Hear, minister of war, whose erring deed\n Has paid our valor with a sorry meed,\n \u00a0\u00a0When we should near the court reside.\n Why have you sent us far to suffer grief,\n And leave our mothers longing for relief,\n \u00a0\u00a0With all their cooking labors tried?","title":"The Book of Poetry: Book IV. The Decade of Ch\u2018i Fu: I. Ch\u2018i Fu","type":"page"}