The Book of Poetry: Book IV. The Odes of Yung: V. Shun Chih Pên Pên
The Book of Poetry, tr. by James Legge, [1876]
2How strong the magpies, battling fierce,
Each one to keep his mate!
How fierce the quails together rush,
Upon the same debate!
This woman, with no trait that's good,
Is stained by vicious crime,
Yet her I hail as marchioness:—
Alas! woe worth the time!