VI. Yang Chih Shui

The Yang Chih Shui; allusive. The troops of Chou, kept on duty in Shin, murmur at their separation from their families.

1 Fretted the waters seem,
Yet gently flows the stream;—
Unable a fagot to bear.
Guarding Shin here we roam,
Wives and children at home,
All absent our toils who should share. p. 78
We think of them ever;
Thought parts from them never;—
What month shall we homeward repair?

2 Fretted the waters seem,
Yet gently flows the stream;—
A bundle of thorns twill not bear.
Guarding Fu here we roam,
Wives and children at home,
All absent our toils who should share.
We think of them ever;
Thought parts from them never;—
What month shall we homeward repair?

3 Fretted the waters seem,
Yet gently flows the stream;
The reed bundle powerless to bear.
Guarding Hsü here we roam,
Wives and children at home,
All absent our toils who should share.
We think of them ever;
Thought parts from them never;—
What month shall we homeward repair?