Thursday, November 18, 2010

Shi Jing [Book of Odes] Anonymous - 1. 關睢 GUAN SUI (excerpt)

參差荇菜、左右流之。
窈宨淑女、寤寐求之。
求之不得、寤寐思服。
悠哉悠哉、輾轉反側。



Here long , there short , is the duckweed , 
To the left , to the right , borne about by the current . 
The modest , retiring , virtuous , young lady : -- 
Waking and sleeping , he sought her . 
He sought her and found her not , 
And waking and sleeping he thought about her . 
Long he thought ; oh ! long and anxiously ; 
On his side , on his back , he turned , and back again .

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