{"collection":"cfu","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/bop/bop209.htm","path":"cfu/bop/bop209.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cfu/bop/bop209.htm","text":"The Book of Poetry, tr. by James Legge, [1876]\n2A few small points, pricked down on wood,\n May be made out a picture good\n \u00a0\u00a0Of the bright southern Sieve.\n Who planned, and helped those slanderers vile,\n My name with base lies to defile?\n \u00a0\u00a0Unpitied, here I grieve.\n3With babbling tongues you go about,\n And only scheme how to make out\n \u00a0\u00a0The lies you scatter round.\n Hear me.\u2014Be careful what you say;\n People erelong your words will weigh,\n \u00a0\u00a0And liars you'll be found.\n4Clever you are, with changeful schemes!\n How else could all your evil dreams p. 264\n \u00a0\u00a0And slanders work their way?\n Men now believe you; by and by,\n The truth found out, each vicious lie\n \u00a0\u00a0Will ill for ill repay.\n5The proud rejoice; the sufferer weeps.\n O azure Heaven, from out thy deeps\n \u00a0\u00a0Why look in silence down?\n Behold those proud men and rebuke;\n With pity on the sufferers look,\n \u00a0\u00a0And on the evil frown.\n6Those slanderers I would gladly take,\n With all who help their schemes to make,\n \u00a0\u00a0And to the tigers throw.\n If wolves and tigers such should spare,\n I'd hurl them \u2019midst the freezing air,\n \u00a0\u00a0Where the keen north winds blow.\n And should the north compassion feel\n I'd fling them to great Heaven, to deal\n \u00a0\u00a0On them its direst woe.\n7As on the acred heights you dwell,\n My place is in the willow dell,\n \u00a0\u00a0One is the other near.\n Before you, officers, I spread\n These lines by me, poor eunuch, made.\n \u00a0\u00a0Think not M\u00eang-tz\u016d severe.","title":"The Book of Poetry: Book V. The Decade of Hsiao Min: VI. Hsiang Pai","type":"page"}