Relationships
The Brothers
Translated by Herbert A. Giles (1898) · From Chinese Poetry in English Verse (1898)
Relationships
A fine dish of beans had been placed in the pot
With a view to a good mess of pottage, all hot.
The beanstalks, aflame, a fierce heat were begetting,
The beans in the pot were all fuming and fretting.
Yet the beans and the stalks were not born to be foes;
Oh why should these hurry to finish off those?
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Chih, Ts’ao. “The Brothers.” Translated by Herbert A. Giles. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/tsao-chih/3/.
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Chih, Ts’ao. “The Brothers.” Translated by Herbert A. Giles. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/tsao-chih/3/.
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