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采蘋

于以采蘋。
南澗之濱。
于以采藻。
于彼行潦。
于以盛之。
維筐及筥。
于以湘之。
維錡及釜。
于以奠之。
宗室牖下。
誰起尸之。
有齊季女。

CAI PING

She gathers the large duckweed,
By the banks of the stream in the southern valley.
She gathers the pondweed,
In those pools left by the floods.
She deposits what she gathers,
In her square baskets and round ones
She boils it,
In her tripods and pans.
She sets forth her preparations,
Under the window in the ancestral chamber.
Who superintends the business?
It is [this] reverent young lady.
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