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The nest is the magpie's; |
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The dove dwells in it. |
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This young lady is going to her future home; |
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A hundred carriages are meeting her. |
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The nest is the magpie's; |
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The dove possesses it. |
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This young lady is going to her future home; |
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A hundred carriages are escorting her. |
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The nest is the magpie's; |
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The dove fills it. |
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This young lady is going to her future home; |
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These hundreds of carriages complete her array. |
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She gathers the white southernwood, |
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By the ponds, on the islets. |
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She employs it, |
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In the business of our prince. |
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She gathers the white southernwood, |
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Along the streams in the valleys. |
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She employs it, |
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In the temple of our prince. |
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With head-dress reverently rising aloft, |
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Early, while yet it is night, she is in the prince's temple; |
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In her dead-dress, slowly retiring, |
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She returns to her own apartments. |
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Yao-yao went the grass-insects, |
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And the hoppers sprang about. |
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While I do not see my lord, |
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My sorrowful heart is agitated. |
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Let me have seen him, |
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Let me have met him, |
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And my heart will then be stilled. |
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I ascended that hill in the south, |
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And gathered the turtle-foot ferns. |
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While I do not see my lord, |
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My sorrowful heart is very sad. |
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Let me have seen him, |
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Let me have met him, |
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And my heart will then be pleased. |
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I ascended that hill in the south, |
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And gathered the thorn-ferns. |
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While I do not see my lord, |
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My sorrowful heart is wounded with grief. |
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Let me have seen him, |
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Let me have met him, |
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And my heart will then be at peace. |
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She gathers the large duckweed, |
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By the banks of the stream in the southern valley. |
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She gathers the pondweed, |
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In those pools left by the floods. |
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She deposits what she gathers, |
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In her square baskets and round ones |
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She boils it, |
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In her tripods and pans. |
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She sets forth her preparations, |
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Under the window in the ancestral chamber. |
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Who superintends the business? |
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It is [this] reverent young lady. |
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[This] umbrageous sweet pear-tree; -- |
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Clip it not, hew it not down. |
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Under it the chief of Zhou lodged. |
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[This] umbrageous sweet pear-tree; -- |
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Clip it not, break not a twig of it. |
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Under it the chief of Zhou rested. |
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[This] umbrageous sweet pear-tree; -- |
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Clip it not, bend not a twig of it. |
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Under it the chief of Zhou halted. |
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Wet lay the dew on the path: -- |
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Might I not [have walked there] in the early dawn? |
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But I said there was [too] much dew on the path. |
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Who can say the sparrow has no horn? |
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How else can it bore through my house? |
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Who can say that you did not get me betrothed? |
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How else could you have urged on this trial? |
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But though you have forced me to trial, |
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Your ceremonies for betrothal were not sufficient. |
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Who can say that the rat has no molar teeth? |
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How else could it bore through my wall? |
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Who can say that you did not get me betrothed? |
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How else could you have urged on this trial? |
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But though you have forced me to trial, |
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I will still not follow you. |
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[Those] lamb-skins and sheep-skins, |
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With their five braidings of white silk! |
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They have retired from the court to take their their meal; |
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Easy are they and self-possesed. |
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[Those] lamb-skins and sheep-skins, |
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With their five seams wrought with white silk! |
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Easy are they and self-possessed; |
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They have retired from the court to take their their meal. |
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The seams of [those] lamb-skins and sheep-skins, |
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The five joinings wrought with white silk! |
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Easy are they and self-possessed; |
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They have retired to take their their meal from the court. |
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Grandly rolls the thunder, |
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On the south of the southern hill! |
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How was it he went away from this, |
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Not daring to take a little rest? |
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My noble lord! |
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May he return! May he return! |
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Grandly rolls the thunder, |
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About the sides of the southern hill! |
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How was it he went away from this, |
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Not daring to take a little rest? |
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My noble lord! |
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May he return! May he return! |
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Grandly rolls the thunder, |
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At the foot of the southern hill! |
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How was it he went away from this, |
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Not remaining a little at rest? |
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My noble lord! |
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May he return! May he return! |
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Dropping are the fruits from the plum-tree; |
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There are [but] seven [tenths] of them left! |
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For the gentlemen who seek me, |
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This is the fortunate time! |
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Dropping are the fruits from the plum-tree; |
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There are [but] three [tenths] of them left! |
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For the gentlemen who seek me, |
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Now is the time. |
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Dropt are the fruits from the plum-tree; |
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In my shallow basket I have collected them. |
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Would the gentlemen who seek me |
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[Only] speak about it! |
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Small are those starlets, |
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Three or five of them in the east, |
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Swiftly by night we go; |
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In the early dawn we are with the prince. |
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Our lot is not like hers. |
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Small are those starlets, |
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And there are Orion and the Pleiades. |
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Swiftly by night we go, |
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Carrying our coverlets and sheets. |
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Our lot is not like hers. |
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The Jiang has its branches, led from it and returning to it. |
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Our lady, when she was married, |
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Would not employ us. |
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She would not employ us; |
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But afterwards she repented. |
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The Jiang has its islets. |
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Our lady, when she was married, |
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Would not let us be with her. |
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She would not let us be with her; |
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But afterwards she repressed [such feelings]. |
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The Jiang has the Tuo. |
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Our lady, when she was married, |
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Would not come near us |
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She would not come near us; |
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But she blew that feeling away, and sang. |
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In the wild there is a dead antelope, |
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And it is wrapped up with the white grass. |
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There is a young lady with thoughts natural to the spring, |
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And a fine gentleman would lead her astray. |
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In the forest there are the scrubby oaks; |
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In the wild there is a dead deer, |
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And it is bound round with the white grass. |
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There is a young lady like a gem. |
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[She says], Slowly; gently, gently; |
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Do not move my handkerchief; |
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Do not make my dog bark. |
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How great is that luxuriance, |
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Those flowers of the sparrow-plum! |
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Are they not expressive of reverence and harmony, -- |
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The carriages of the king's daughter? |
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How great is that luxuriance, |
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The flowers like those of the peach-tree or the plum! |
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[See] the grand-daughter of the tranquillizing king, |
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And the son of the reverent marquis! |
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What are used in angling? |
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Silk threads formed into lines. |
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The son of the reverent marquis, |
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And the grand-daughter of the tranquillizing king! |