{"collection":"cfu","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/mtc/mtc42.htm","path":"cfu/mtc/mtc42.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cfu/mtc/mtc42.htm","text":"More Translations from the Chinese, by Arthur Waley, [1919]\nMen's hearts love gold and jade;\n Men's mouths covet wine and flesh.\n Not so the old man of the stream;\n He drinks from his gourd and asks nothing more.\n South of the stream he cuts firewood and grass;\n North of the stream he has built wall and roof.\n Yearly he sows a single acre of land;\n In spring he drives two yellow calves.\n In these things he finds great repose;\n Beyond these he has no wish or care.\n By chance I met him walking by the water-side;\n He took me home and lodged me in his thatched hut.\n When I parted from him, to seek market and Court,\n This old man asked my rank and pay.\n Doubting my tale, he laughed loud and long:\n \"Privy Councillors do not sleep in barns.\"","title":"More Translations from the Chinese: Po Ch\u00fc-i: Lodgin...","type":"page"}