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Shi Jing Introduction Table of content – The Book of Odes

The oldest collection of Chinese poetry, more than three hundred songs, odes and hymns. Tr. Legge (en) and Granet (fr, incomplete).

Section I — Lessons from the states
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
12 13 14 15
Chapter 4 — The odes of Yong

45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54

Shijing I. 4. (52)

Look at a rat, – it has its skin ;
But a man should be without dignity of demeanour.
If a man have no dignity of demeanour,
What should he but die ?

Look at a rat, – it has its teeth ;
But a man shall be without any right deportment.
If a man have not right deportment,
What should he wait for but death ?

Look at a rat, – it has its limbs ;
But a man shall be without any rules of propriety.
If a man observe no rules of propriety,
Why does he not quickly die ?

Legge 52

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