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Book V. The Odes Of Wei. V. Chu Kan

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"The Book of Poetry", tr. by James Legge, [1876],

p. 69

V

The "Chu Kan;" narrative. A daughter of the house of Wei, married in another state, expresses her longing to revisit Wei.

1With long and tapering rods,

You angle in the Ch'i.

I think of you, dear friends,

Here far removed from Wei.

2Ch'an-yan upon the left,

Ch'i on the right I view.

But married far away,

To home I bade adieu.

3Those streams, this on the right,

That on the left, appear.

The laugh that shows your teeth,

Your tinkling gems, I hear.

4i
watch the cedar oars

On Ch'i, and boats of pine.

O might I travel there,

And soothe this heart of mine!
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