{"collection":"ich","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/ich/icap7.htm","path":"ich/icap7.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/ich/icap7.htm","text":"Treatise on the Hexagrams taken promiscuously, according to the opposition or diversity of their meaning.\nThis last of the Appendixes is touched on very briefly in the concluding paragraph of the Introduction, p. 55. It is stated there to be in rhyme, and I have endeavoured to give a similar form to the following version of it. The rhymes and length of the lines in the original, however, are very irregular, and I found it impossible to reproduce that irregularity in English.\n1, 2. Strength in Khien, weakness in Khw\u0103n we find.\n8, 7. P\u00ee shows us joy, and Sze the anxious mind.\n19, 20. Lin gives, Kw\u00e2n seeks;--such are the several themes\nTheir different figures were to teach designed.\n3. Kun manifests itself, yet keeps its place;\n4. 'Mid darkness still, to light M\u0103ng sets its face.\n51, 52. K\u0103n starts; K\u0103n stops. In Sun and Y\u00ee are seen\n41, 42. How fulness and decay their course begin.\n26. T\u00e2 Kh\u00fb keeps still, and waits the proper time.\n25. W\u00fb Wang sets forth how evil springs from crime.\n45, 46. Good men in \u017dhui collect; in Shang they rise:\n15, 16. Khien itself, Y\u00fc others doth despise.\n21, 22. Shih Ho takes eating for its theme; and P\u00ee\nTakes what is plain, from ornament quite free.\n58, 57. Tui shows its scope, but Sun's we do not see.\n17, 18. Sui quits the old; K\u00fb makes a new decree.\n23. We see in Po its subject worn away;\n24. And F\u00fb shows its recovering from decay.\n35. Above in \u017din the sun shines clear and bright;\n36. But in Ming \u00ce 'tis hidden from the sight.\n48,47. Progress in \u017ding in Khw\u0103n encounters blight.\n31. Effect quick answering cause in Hsien appears;\n32. While H\u0103ng denotes continuance for years.\n59,60. Hw\u00e2n scatters; but \u017dieh its code of rules uprears.\n40. Relief and ease with Kieh are sure to come;\n41. Hard toil and danger have in Kien their home.\n38. Khwei looks on others as beyond its care;\n37. Ki\u00e2 Z\u0103n all includes within its sphere.\n12, 11. While Ph\u00ee and Th\u00e2i their different scopes prefer,\n34, 33. T\u00e2 Kwang stops here as right; withdraws Thun there.\n14. T\u00e2 Y\u00fb adhering multitudes can show;\n13. Thung Z\u0103n reflects their warm affection's glow.\n50, 51. Ting takes what's new; the old is left by Ko.\n61, 62. Sincere is Kung F\u00fb; but exceeds, Hsi\u00e2o Kwo.\n55, 56. F\u0103ng tells of trouble; L\u00fc can boast few friends.\n30, 29. Fire mounts in L\u00ee; water in Kh\u00e2n descends.\n9. Hsi\u00e2o Kh\u00fb with few 'gainst many foes contends.\n10. Movement in L\u00ee, unresting, never ends.\n5. Hs\u00fc shows its subject making no advance:\n6. In Sung we seek in vain a friendly glance;\n28. And T\u00e2 Kwo's overthrown with sad mischance.\n44. K\u00e2u shows a meeting, where the many strong\nAre met by one that's weak, yet struggles long.\n53. In Kien we see a bride who will delay\nTo move until the bridegroom takes his way.\n27. Body and mind are nourished right in \u00ce;\n63. All things are well established in K\u00ee \u017d\u00ee.\n54. Kwei Mei reveals how ends the virgin life;\n64. Wei \u017d\u00ee how fails the youth (to get a wife).\n43. The strong disperse the weak; Kw\u00e2i teaches so.\nProspers the good man's way; to grief all small men go.","title":"The I Ching, Legge tr.: Appendix VII: Appendix VII","type":"page"}