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Book Viii. The Decade Of Tu Jen Shih. X
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"The Book of Poetry", tr. by James Legge
, [
1876
],
X
The "
Ho Ts'ao Pu Huang;
" allusive and narrative. The misery and murmuring of soldiers constantly employed on expeditionary services, and treated without any consideration.
1Yellow now is all the grass;
All the days in marching pass.
On the move is every man;
Hard work, far and near, they plan. p
. 330
2
Black is every plant become;
Every man is torn from home.
Kept on foot, our state is sad;--
As if we no feelings had!
3Not rhinoceroses we!
Tigers do we care to be?
Fields like these so desolate
Are to us a hateful fate.
4Long-tailed foxes pleased may hide
'Mong the grass, where they abide.
We, in box carts slowly borne,
On the great roads plod and mourn.
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