Death & Dying
The Urh-Tsze Shing Chow
Translated by James Legge (1876) · From The She King (1876), Part I, Book III
The two youths went into their boats,
Whose shadow on the water floats.
What evil to them came ?
Anxious and wondering, long We muse;
Our hearts are tossed with tossing views.
Some one must be to blame.
Into their boats the two youths passed,
And on the stream were carried fast.
What was there to alarm ?
With longing thought we fain would trace,
The secret of their ill-starred race.
Did they not come to harm ?
Codex Note
Surmises as to the death of two sons of duke Seuen.
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MLA
Shi Jing (The Book of Songs). “The Urh-Tsze Shing Chow.” Translated by James Legge. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/shi-jing/43/.
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Shi Jing (The Book of Songs). “The Urh-Tsze Shing Chow.” Translated by James Legge. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/shi-jing/43/.
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