{"collection":"cfu","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/mtc/mtc37.htm","path":"cfu/mtc/mtc37.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cfu/mtc/mtc37.htm","text":"More Translations from the Chinese, by Arthur Waley, [1919]\nMy long poem, the \"Eternal Grief,\"\u00a01 is a beautiful and moving work;\n My ten \"Songs of Shensi\" are models of tunefulness.\n I cannot prevent Old Y\u00fcan from stealing my best rhymes;\n But I earnestly beg Little Li to respect my ballads and songs.\n While I am alive riches and honour will never fall to my lot;\n But well I know that after I am dead the fame of my books will live.\n This random talk and foolish boasting forgive me, for to-day\n I have added Volume Fifteen to the row that stands to my name.\n67:1 See Giles, \"Chinese Literature,\" p. 169.","title":"More Translations from the Chinese: Po Ch\u00fc-i: The Fi...","type":"page"}