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Large was she and tall, |
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In her embroidered robe, with a [plain] single garment over it: -- |
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The daughter of the marquis of Qi. |
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The wife of the marquis of Wei, |
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The sister of the heir-son of Tong |
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The sister-in-law of the marquis of Xing, |
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The viscount of Tan also her brother-in-law. |
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Her fingers were like the blades of the young white-grass; |
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Her skin was like congealed ointment; |
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Her neck was like the tree-grub; |
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Her teeth were like melon seeds; |
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Her forehead cicada-like; her eyebrows like [the antenne of] the silkworm moth; |
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What dimples, as she artfully smiled! |
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How lovely her eyes, with the black and white so well defined! |
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Large was she and tall, |
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When she halted in the cultivated suburbs. |
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Strong looked her four horses, |
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With the red ornaments so rich about their bits. |
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Thus in her carriage, with its screens of pheasant feathers, |
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she proceeded to our court. |
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Early retire, ye great officers, |
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And do not make the marquis fatiqued! |
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The waters of the He, wide and deep, |
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Flow northwards in majestic course. |
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The nets are dropt into them with a plashing sound, |
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Among shoals of sturgeon, large and small, |
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While the rushes and sedges are rank about. |
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Splendidly adorned were her sister ladies; |
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Martial looked the attendant officers. |