{"collection":"cfu","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/bop/bop195.htm","path":"cfu/bop/bop195.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cfu/bop/bop195.htm","text":"The Book of Poetry, tr. by James Legge, [1876]\n2Free let the brilliant white colt eat\n \u00a0\u00a0The bean sprouts growing in my yard.\n Secure it by the neck and feet,\n \u00a0\u00a0This evening's joy thus safely guard.\n Its owner, cherished in my heart,\n \u00a0\u00a0Shall then be here, a guest admired.\n O could I wile him from the part\n \u00a0\u00a0He wants to play, from men retired!\n3O leave thy colt of brilliant white!\n \u00a0\u00a0If thou to me would\u2019st blithely come,\n As duke or marquis, honors bright\n \u00a0\u00a0Thou should\u2019st obtain, and in thy home\n Find endless joy. Try to restrain,\n \u00a0\u00a0With strictest curb, thy roaming mind:\n And from the hermit life refrain,\n \u00a0\u00a0To which thou art so much inclined.\n4\u2019Tis vain. The brilliant white colt view,\n \u00a0\u00a0Deep in that empty valley stand,\n Before it placed a bundle new\n \u00a0\u00a0Of grass plucked by its master's hand.\n That master as a gem I hold.\n \u00a0\u00a0O that, relenting, he may send\n What I'll prize more than gems or gold,\u2014\n \u00a0\u00a0News that he still remains my friend!","title":"The Book of Poetry: Book IV. The Decade of Ch\u2018i Fu: II. Pai Ch\u00fc","type":"page"}