Chinese and Arabian Literature - E. Wilson - The Search For Mecca

THE SHI-KING 145
An Entreaty
Along the great highway,
I hold you by the cuff.
O spurn me not, I pray,
Nor break old friendship off.
Along the highway worn,
I hold your hand in mine.
Do not as vile me scorn
Your love I can't resign.
A Woman Scorning Her Lover
O dear ! that artful boy
Refuses me a word
But, Sir, I shall enjoy
My food, though you're absurd
O dear ! that artful boy
My table will not share
But, Sir, I shall enjoy
My rest, though you're not there!
A Lady Mourns the Absence of Her Student Lover
You student, with the collar blue,
Long pines my heart with anxious pain.
Although I do not go to you,
Why from all word do you refrain?
O you, with girdle strings of blue.
My thoughts to you forever roam
Although I do not go to you,
Yet why to me should you not come?
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How reckless you, how light and wild,
Tliere by the tower upon the wall
One day, from sight of you exiled.
As long as three long months I call.
Vol, IV,— 10
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