Hiss hiss empyrean go Wrap.quilt and close Truly Fate no alike.
Of this Dr. Legge, following the native commentators, makes the following—while admitting, however, in a foot note that the meaning of the fourth line in Stanza 1 is obscure.
Small are those starlets, Three or five of them in the East.
Swiftly by night we go: In the early dawn we are with the prince. Our lot is not like hers.
Small are those starlets, And there are Orion snd the Pleiades. Swiftly by night we go, Carrying our coverlets and sheets. Our lot is not as hers.
Mr. Jennings, slavishly following Dr. Legge, enlarges the meaning thus and invents x new title which has nothing to do with the Chinese title Siao hsing or Me-terra" whatever.
CONTENTED CONCUBINES, Starlets dim are yonder peeping,—Tu the Bast are five, abd three. Softly, where our lord is (sleeping), Soon or late by night go we.
Some have high, some low degree. sofltintes Grows bande Starlets dim are yonder peeping,
Quilt and coverlet in hands ly nightly go we creeping,
Some take high, some lower stand.
Mr Allen professes to strike out a path of his own, but in reality in giving a variation of the seme theme he simply enlarges the not very elegant conception of the comnientator in the following very wide paraphrase
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.