Living
Why she came not
Translated by William Jennings (1891) · From The Shi King (Jennings, 1891), Part I, Book vi
His grand carriage — hark, how it is rumbling!
The furred robes, green-emblazoned, are there!
Are my thoughts, then, to thee never turning?
But I fear him, and nothing must dare.
Slowly, pond'rously moves his grand carriage, —
His furred robes as with garnets bedight.
Are my thoughts, then, to thee never turning?
Fear of him makes me halt in my flight.
Though in life we have separate dwellings,
Yet in death in one grave may we lie.
Call me faithless, yet still am I faithful,
While the sun yonder shines in the sky!
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Shi Jing (The Book of Songs). “Why she came not.” Translated by William Jennings. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/shi-jing/349/.
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Shi Jing (The Book of Songs). “Why she came not.” Translated by William Jennings. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/shi-jing/349/.
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