{"collection":"cfu","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/bop/bop234.htm","path":"cfu/bop/bop234.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cfu/bop/bop234.htm","text":"The Book of Poetry, tr. by James Legge, [1876]\n2In the old capital they wore\n \u00a0\u00a0T\u2018ai hats and black caps small;\n And ladies, who famed surnames bore,\n \u00a0\u00a0Their own thick hair let fall.\n Such simple ways are seen no more,\n And the changed manners I deplore. p. 317\n3Ear stoppers, made of sew stones fine,\n \u00a0\u00a0In the old days were worn.\n Each lady of a noble line\n \u00a0\u00a0A Yin or Chi seemed born.\n Such officers and ladies now\n I see not, and my sorrows grow.\n4With graceful sweep their girdles fell,\n \u00a0\u00a0Then in the days of old.\n The ladies\u2019 side hair, with a swell,\n \u00a0\u00a0Like scorpion's tail, rose bold.\n Such, if I saw them in these days,\n I'd follow with admiring gaze.\n5So hung their girdles, not for show;\u2014\n \u00a0\u00a0To their own length \u2019twas due.\n \u2019Twas not by art the hair curled so;\u2014\n \u00a0\u00a0By nature so it grew.\n I seek such manners now in vain,\n And pine for them with longing pain.","title":"The Book of Poetry: Book VIII. The Decade of Tu J\u00ean Shih: I. Tu J\u00ean Shih","type":"page"}