THE SHE KING; OR, THE BOOK OF ANCIENT POETRY

164 THE BOOK OP POETRY. [PART I.
The life of gallant Chung to save
A hundred lives we would have given.
3 The birds, the yellow birds, are rife,
And through the thorny branches fly.
Not so who doomed to death in life,
Must fill the ducal cemetery.
K'een was a man above all men,
And more than a hundred brave ;
But he trembled and shook,
And scared was his look,
When he stood by the prince's grave.
Why thus destroy our good and great ?
To thee we cry, 0 azure Heaven !.
If K'een were living with us yet,
A hundred lives we would have given.
VII.
The Skin fung; allusive. A WIFE TELLS HER GEIEF BECAUSE OB
THE ABSENCE OP HEK HUSBAND, AND HIS FORGETFULNESS OF HER.
1 The falcon swiftly seeks the north,
And forest gloom that sent it forth.
Since I no more my husband see,
My heart from grief is never free.
O how is it, I long to know,
That he, my lord, forgets me so ?
2 Bushy oaks on the mountain grow,
And six elms where the ground is low.
But I, my husband seen no more,
My sad and joyless fate deplore.
0 how is it, I long to know.
That he, my lord, forgets me so ?
3 The hills the bushy wild plums show,
And pear trees grace the ground below.
But, with my husband from me gone,
As drunk with grief, I dwell alone.
0 how is it, I long to know,
That he, my lord, forgets me so ?
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Till.
The Woo e: narrative. THE PEOPLE OF TS'IN DECLARE THEIR
READINESS, AND STIMULATE OKE ANOTHER, TO FIGHT IN THE KING'S
CAUSE.
Evidently this piece was made at a time when the people were being
called out in the service of Chow, and the loyalty which they had felt,
when they were subjects of Chow, still asserted itself.
1 Say you you have no clothes to wear ?
My long robes let me with you share.
The king his armies has called out;
Then let us hail the battle shout.
My lance and spear I will prepare,
And as your comrade with you fare.
2 Say you you have no clothes to wear ?
Come and my under-garments share.
The king his armies has called out;
Then let us hail the battle shout.
My spear and lance I will prepare,
And to the field with you will fare.
3 Say you you have no clothes to wear ?
My lower clothing you shall share.
The king his armies has called out;
Then let us hail the battle shout.
Buff coat I'll get, and weapons keen,
And with you on the march be seen.
IS.
The Wei yang; narrative. THE FEELINGS WITH WHICH DUKE
K'ANG OF TS'IN ESCORTED HIS UNCLE, DUKE WAN. TO TSIN, AND HIS
PARTING GIFTS.
Duke He'en of Tsin had a daughter who was married to duke Muh of
Ts'in, and became the mother of his son, afterwards duke K'ang. The
eldest sou and heir of Been was driven to suicide by the machinations of
an unworthy favourite of his father, and his two other sons fled to other
States. One of them, Ch'ung-urh, afterwards the famous duke Wan of
Tsin, took refuge finally in Ts'in, and by the help of Muh was restored
to his native State, and became master of it after he had been a fugitive
for 19 years. K'ang was then the heir-apparent of Ts'in, and escorted
his nncle into Tsin, when he undertook the expedition to recover it.