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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=391159" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Canto XIII: Kung Walked</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Kung walked<br>by the dynastic temple<br>and into the cedar grove,<br>and then out by the lower river,<br>And with him Khieu Tchi<br>and Tian the low speaking<br>And ``we are unknown,&quot; said Kung,<br>``You will take up charioteering?<br>``Then you will become known,<br>``Or perhaps I should take up charioterring, or archery?<br>``Or the practice of public speaking?''<br>And Tseu-lou said, ``I would put the defences in order,''<br>And Khieu said, ``If I were lord of a province<br>``I would put it in better order than this is.''<br>And Tchi said, ``I would prefer a small mountain temple,<br>``With order in the observances,<br>with a suitable performance of the ritual,''<br>And Tian said, with his hand on the strings of his lute<br>The low sounds continuing<br>after his hand left the strings,<br>And the sound went up like smoke, under the leaves,<br>And he looked after the sound:<br>``The old swimming hole,<br>``And the boys flopping off the planks,<br>``Or sitting in the underbrush playing mandolins.''<br>And Kung smiled upon all of them equally.<br>And Thseng-sie desired to know:<br>``Which had answered correctly?''<br>And Kung said, ``They have all answered correctly,<br>``That is to say, each in his nature.''<br>And Kung raised his cane against Yuan Jang,<br>Yuan Jang being his elder,<br>For Yuan Jang sat by the roadside pretending to<br>be receiving wisdom.<br>And Kung said<br>``You old fool, come out of it,<br>``Get up and do something useful.''<br>And Kung said<br>``Respect a child's faculties<br>``From the moment it inhales the clear air,<br>``But a man of fifty who knows nothng<br>Is worthy of no respect.''<br>And &quot;When the prince has gathered about him<br>``All the savants and artists, his riches will be fully employed.''<br>And Kung said, and wrote on the bo leaves:<br>If a man have not order within him<br>He can not spread order about him;<br>And if a man have not order within him<br>His family will not act with due order;<br>And if the prince have not order within him<br>He can not put order in his dominions.<br>And Kung gave the words ``order''<br>and ``brotherly deference''<br>And said nothing of the ``life after death.''<br>And he said<br>``Anyone can run to excesses,<br>``It is easy to shoot past the mark,<br>``It is hard to stand firm in the middle.''</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And they said: If a man commit murder<br>Should his father protect him, and hide him?<br>And Kung said:<br>He should hide him.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And Kung gave his daughter to Kong-Tchang<br>Although Kong-Tchang was in prison.<br>And he gave his niece to Nan-Young<br>although Nan-Young was out of office.<br>And Kung said ``Wan ruled with moderation,<br>``In his day the State was well kept,<br>``And even I can remember<br>``A day when the historians left blanks in their writings,<br>``I mean, for things they didn't know,<br>``But that time seems to be passing.<br>A day when the historians left blanks in their writings,<br>But that time seems to be passing.''<br>And Kung said, ``Without character you will<br>``be unable to play on that instrument<br>``Or to execute the music fit for the Odes.<br>``The blossoms of the apricot<br>``blow from the east to the west,<br>``And I have tried to keep them from falling.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ezra+Pound">Ezra Pound</a><div class=q>
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by the dynastic temple
and into the cedar grove,
and then out by the lower river,
And with him Khieu Tchi
and Tian the low speaking
And ``we are unknown,&quot; said Kung,
``You will take up charioteering?
``Then you will become known,
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