{"collection":"cfu","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/bop/bop298.htm","path":"cfu/bop/bop298.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cfu/bop/bop298.htm","text":"Sacred Texts\u00a0\n Confucianism\u00a0\n Index\u00a0\n Previous\u00a0\n Next\u00a0\n \nBuy this Book at Amazon.com\n \n \nThe Book of Poetry, tr. by James Legge, [1876]\n \n p. 454\n IV\n \n The Hsiao Pi; narrative. King Ch\u00eang acknowledges that he had erred, and states his purpose to be careful in the future; he will guard against the slight beginnings of evil, and is penetrated with a sense of his own incompetences.\n \n When of the past I think, myself I blame;\n I'll guard in future \u2019gainst what caused me shame\n I'll shun the wasp, nor do the foolish thing\n By which I seemed to invite its painful sting.\n It looked a wren, that I could hold unharmed;\n It grew to a fierce bird, with talons armed!\n Uneasy is my head which wears the crown,\n And bitter trials press me sorely down.\n \n \n \n Next: V. Tsai Shan","title":"The Book of Poetry: Section III. The Decade of Min Y\u00fc Hsiao Tz\u016d: IV. Hsiao Pi","type":"page"}