{"collection":"cfu","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/mtc/mtc41.htm","path":"cfu/mtc/mtc41.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cfu/mtc/mtc41.htm","text":"More Translations from the Chinese, by Arthur Waley, [1919]\nFrom my high castle I look at the town below\n Where the natives of Pa cluster like a swarm of flies.\n How can I govern these people and lead them aright?\n I cannot even understand what they say.\n But at least I am glad, now that the taxes are in,\n To learn that in my province there is no discontent.\n I fear its prosperity is not due to me\n And was only caused by the year's abundant crops,\n The papers that lie on my desk are simple and few;\n My house by the moat is leisurely and still.\n In the autumn rain the berries fall from the eaves;\n At the evening bell the birds return to the wood.\n A broken sunlight quavers over the southern porch\n Where I lie on my couch abandoned to idleness.","title":"More Translations from the Chinese: Po Ch\u00fc-i: After ...","type":"page"}