The Book of Poetry: Book III. The Odes of P‘ei: XIX. Erh Tsŭ Ch‘êng Chou
The Book of Poetry, tr. by James Legge, [1876]
2Into their boats the two youths passed,
And on the stream were carried fast.
What was there to alarm?
With longing thought we fain would trace,
The secret of their ill-starred race.
Did they not come to harm?