Canto XCIX

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Till the blue grass turn yellow And the yellow leaves float in air And long Cheng (Canto 6 i) Of the line of Kang Hi By the silk cords of the sunlight Non disunia 2nd year 2nd month 2 nd day SHENG U, the Edict Each year in the elder spring, that is the first month Of the spring time The herald shall incite yr/ compliance There are six rites for festival And 7 instructions That all converge as the root tun^ pen^ The root veneration (from Mohamed no popery) To discriminate things Shih* s solid Mu^ a pattern Fa'' laws Kung'' pubhc Szu* private Great and small (That Odysseus' old ma missed his conversation) To see the hght pour That IS, toward sinceritas Of the word, comprehensive KOINE ENNOIA All astute men can see it encircling Chou saw It, my SIBJE also With splendour Catholicity Woven in order As on cords in the loom Cognome, mdirizzo (pien^ hu^ Sincerity, simphcity, red South, and naivete Meng*, the people, the many, the menee The perishing Sage men have plans Simplicity a thousand generations, no man can change The Sage Emperor's heart is our heart His government is our government Yao* high, hsiao^ dawn The Venerated Emperor Watched things grow with affection His thought was not dry on a shelf Not exhaustible, on sale in a (kuei"'*) shop That job was the swan's flight (hung* yeh^ s) To trace out and to bind together From sonship this goes to clan And to avoid litigations Out of the field, from the trees Food is the root Feed the people This much I, Chen, have heard Yo el rey Yang^ nourish Chih* 5 ma set out hemp Chung^ mi'en® cotton T'ung® all together IV There are functions Rats' gnaws, and bird's pecks litigations Pine rat and oak cat, squirrel to you Sparrow, hemp-bird, rats' gnaws and tit-horns Rush to law without cause Tie knots into ruin of property Fei (four), waste time, flounder in business The organization is functional And to maintain a hqmdity Begm at the precinct level Dripping with sympathy to fan up contentions Good luck as a door that is sealed Nor scrape iron off the point of a needle There can be equity in plowing and weeding When men of war know the Odes Esteem samty in curricula You cannot leave out the classics Prey on the people because they have no solid principles And of Taosers, Chu says Concerned neither with heaven, earth Or with anything on the square But wholly subjective, for the Dragon moamng The screaming tiger, mercury, pills, pharmacopia And the Bhud rot that floaters eat Without maintaining their homesteads Hence the learned Kedson's remarks And don't believe papists merely because they Helped with the calendar Odysseus' old ma missed his conversation Nestor "too mteUigent to prevaricate " Unsifted hot words, at first merely to flatter As an ammal his eye eating light Or run to rat holes Laws must be for the general good For the people's uprightness Their moral uprightness Ch'ung* venerate Black out the eroders, hsieh* Venerate honest men The great balance is not made in a day Nor for one holiday only The business of relatives is fihality A gentleman's job is his sincerity Build pen yeh The family profession It will bring luck out of the air If you mind your own business they (the phomes) WiU fade out before they have to be druv Wang that man's phaUic heart is from heaven A clear spring of rightness Greed turns it awry Bright gleaming, ming Kuang* in traverse Need you go so far to bum mccnsc VIII Let the laws be made clear Illumine the words of procedure Peace comes of good manners Feng^ su^'S li feng su INTENZIONE li feng su jang^ The sages of Han had a saying Manners are from earth and from water They arise out of hills and streams The spirit of air is of the country Men s manners cannot be one (same, identical) Kung said are classic of heaven They bind thru the earth And flow With recurrence Action, humanitas, equity Ne ultra crepidam For greater exactness The Tenth is PEN YEH "a developed skill from persistence" Thus Mang Tzu (Crysippus, Simbabwe "the un-good merely dissolve") Se non fosse ewe "a share, not a fixed charge" Don't pester scholars Nor lose life for bad temper Heaven, man, earth, our law as wntten Not outside their natural colour Water, earth and biceps, fas s lu Crusaders' bows gnawed by gold-lice, (Jf\ Normandy pawned "some of the non-interest-bearmg" (TCP '78) A man's paradise is his good nature (Khati) Doubled kuang^ nung^ Synesius thought myth expedient Al Kindi The classics If our intentions were serious Mencken said No longer Han (IX, 1 e mne) beheved in the peoples Different each, different customs But one root in the equities One in acumen With the sun (chih) Under it all & faith with the word HiUs and streams colour the air Vigour, tranquility, not one set of rules Vigour, quietude, are of place Uen Ogn of Han-time built schools Rode circuit Selected And even now you can't huy office in Fourstreams Tuan^ Cheng"^ The teacher's job is not Just fiUmg paper with detours Nor in dull float (fou^ po* s) Four tuan, and verity VII And still men lust after, try to build on Lopsidedness Phoemx to t'ung tree A mirrour to flowers, as water is to the moon "'Bother," said Chu Wan Rung of Sung court "neither with a man's politics nor his religion" "neither with a man's pohtics nor with heaven" And Plotinus, his bellyache A great perversion From Plotinus his bellyache Though he still thought God of all men The body is inside ""This clean out and that's all '"e basta " Sd/ Chu, the accomplished Re Tao talk Thazz all there is to it, prolong the animal spirits But you folk (V ) will go and beheve 'em SEVEN Get rid of flimsy foundations Our ancestors thought that closed minds Do no good to the Empire, nor Ut supra ""scraping iron off the point of a needle " Let a man do a good job at his trade Whence is honesty Whence are good manners Good custom This IS tuan^ cheng^ Good living E basta There are five relativities state, family and friendship Amicitia Dolt, clear musician, the precise man and the clumsy There are Four Books and the 5 relations Fools fall for weapons and poison You are not all of you idiots There are a lot of you who will not Fall for this hokum But your females hke to bum incense And buzz round m crowds and processions (Mr Bailer ammadverts on the similanties In all priestcraft (vide subject "Missions" in Canto whatever) Buddha ipse is said to have been annoyed with such hoakum And as for their argot For the dialect of their incantations & the Taozers turn out to chase devils (The Papist did help with the calendar Pu K'o Hsin) Of heaven, earth and of thmgs without shadows Cut the cackle and do not believe 'em Better physical poison than bram wash Hsin* shu^'S Hai^ The mind at the start had Cheng"^ Greed defrauds it Some want more than they can get in a lifetime 2 incarnations in every home Huo+ s s And you go up hill to seek wooden ones Kuang Kuang Ming Saith Khaty Ming Tien T'ang" Hsm^ Has Confucians observe the weather Hear thunder Seek to include Bhud Man by negation But their First Classic that the heart shd / be straight The phallos perceive its aim Tinkle, tinkle, two tongues' No But down on the word with exactness Against gnashmg of teeth (upper incisors) Chih, chih* Wo chiy chih? Wo"^ wo ch'o ch'o, paltry yatter Wo4 5 wo4 5 ch'o^ 5 ch'o^"S Paltry yatter But as Chu said, nowt to do with taking hold of anythmg In the four coigns of the universe Heaven, earth or whatsodam No handle No clear kuan^ Chao^ kuan^ Care for control But to hve as flowers reflected As moonhght Free from all possessiveness m affections But, as Chu says, egoistical As to building temples for the benefit of contractors Or images for the benefit of the gilders The incense market will benefit From your wives' red and green dresses As they run about mid riffi-raff Acquiring merit by comedy Or by tragedy after fool vows To release souls with burnt papers Bhudda^* divine To be bought with a few bits of silver? And enraged if his priests do not get it? But if the scholar wants by one smff to force up His reputation Or has eye on gram-cut in exchange Agiotage, profit motive M and out of the yamen, homing in on officials Mediate hand-outs and hand-overs Raise fire-word swish-swash & not one dot of decency in his conduct A mere dribble with an ex-mortar-board label Che yang ti jen A low-flow and a liu* flow A rice dog-head pai lui for rum An Tmg made rules and observed them 2 schools for government preparation Classic and Govt Business And they were neat as a bird^s beak, his students And in Han time was Wen* Weng^ Held office in Fourstreams Pen Ne ultra crepidam yeh As Dolmetsch or Big Top & that scholars read Odes And turn conversation toward justice Hsiu"^ ts'an* in the home Kuan* ch'ang* in office Talk modus Keep mind on the root Abihty as gram in the wheat-ear Estabhsh the homestead XI Teach kids to keep out of mischief Sow to the very corner Most people have sons or brothers Study the ancient King Sages As compass and T-square To have masters in village schools To teach 'em classics not hog-wash & That the Kiang Sheng is to be read once a month To start 'em (like the ceremonial furrow) Generation being linked to posterity Excellence is from learning Hao hsm* An abbreviation for 04-S from Ignorance, foulness Completeness, focus Or rum, huai, tone four And if your kids don't study, that's your fault Tell 'em Don't bd yourself, and don't be In statement, answer, m conversation Not with sissified fussmess (cLaao*) Always want your own way Let 'em ask before takmg action That there be no slovenly sloppmess Between goodman & wife Gt IS gt Little is htde With friends one is one 2 IS 2 Not to he out of heedlessness Let alone out of trickery Fitting the tone to their words As water goes over the miU-wheel Dress 'em in folderols And feed 'em with dainties In the end they will sell out the homestead Taxes, for pubhc utihty A share of a product People have bodies Ergo they sow and reap Soldiers also have bodies Take care of the body as implement It IS useful To shield you from floods and rascality Bom of the blue sky and a wild cat Cloud in thunder and ram Basalt, the stone gong "if," as Yao said "you can keep these two lovelies In order You forget the timing of budgets That is to say you probably don't even know that Officials exist in time You are fairly unconscious Hsiang 1 hsiang But in muddle and incomprehension 14 5 The contemplation of outlay Hsiao'*' Tsou (four) memorial The k'ao ch'eng is according to harvest The tax as a share of something produced You can waste more on tips and wangles (Thiers a progress from Talleyrand Less bram and more morals) PANURGIA^ SOPHIA What will not do Are distinguished by what they will not — Cannibals wd/ resist canneries. Ersatz A given state of enhghtenment, scienza XIV Thru the ten voices of the tradition The land has been ploughed T'len^ ti"^ & there have been taxes in kind, and by (hang"*) measure This IS important As to the scope of such taxes All Courts have levied them The right pattern of levy is yang'^ cheng^ Id est for use Not a fountain of folderols For top poppinjays Wranglings won t get you out of it High Sc low, top & under INCORPORATE & one body The ups are not malevolent You might consider their comphcations Dykes for flood-water Someone must build 'em Must plan 'em By the ten mouths of the tradition Have peace Meamng get rid of cnminahty Catch 'em^ Ancestral spring making breed, a pattern Yong (2 2 3) "12 inches, gmnea an inch^" said Elkin Mathews In regard to Courtney s review The State is corporate As with pulse in its body & with Chou rite at the root of it The root is thru all of it A tone in all public teaching This IS not a work of fiction Nor yet of one man The SIX kinds of action, filial, reciprocal Sincerity from of old until now Holding together Not shallow in verbal usage Nor in dissociations Shallow prides, feeble dissociations And spend their time slantmg rumours Keep things off center slander and blabber-mouth Rail, scold and ructions, manesco And the whole family suffers The whole tribe is from one man's body What other way can you think of it> The surname, and the 9 arts The father's word is compassion The son's, filiality The brother's word mutuality The younger's word deference Small birds sing in chorus Harmony is in the proportion of branches As clarity (chao^) Compassion, tree's root and water-spring The state order, inside a boundary Law reciprocity What is statute save reaprocityj* One village m order One valley wiU reach the four seas CHfeN, yo el Key, wish you to think of this EDICT 4 Having heard that provisions are the root of the people (logistica) Nung Sang To sprout in season And have trees for your silk-worms One big chap not plow One female not weave Can mean shortage From of old the sovereign likes plowing & the Empress tends trees with reverence Nor shrink from the heat of labour An omen The plan is in nature Rooted Coming from earth, times (ch'ang*) respected Their powers convergmg (chu four assemble There is a must at the root of it Not one man's mere power Thru high-low, parch and dampness High, dry for pamcled millet Damp, low for rice (non-glutinous) and paddy Wu® mu ch'i® ymg® pei^ h+ (interest) Not for a quick buck at high interest The legal rate does not exhaust things (Byzance did better) Don't burn to abandon production and go into trading Dig up root to chase branches Vide Michelet & Ambrose "De Tobia" The rate m Byzance was lower As can continuous far [que ga dome) Estabhshed that everybody got some education AND you had literate Confucians M the burocracy Focus of men of ability solidified our good customs Shut out graceful bigots And moderate thundering phalloi (this IS a mistranslation) Strong, weak, to one cooperation Our SAGE FOREBEAR examined to Stimulate anagogico And more especially magmfied schools — Everything that wd/ bring up esprit de corps Tramed his officers not to slant government And to be ready for anything I St/ the basic m his own practice Then village usage To see what style for the casting Fihahry and fratermty are the root Talents to be considered as branches Precise terminology is the first implement Dish and container After that the 9 arts AND study the classic books The straight history All of It candid Be friends with straight officers Chiao^ communicate They are your commumcations A hasty chirrp may raise ruin You, soldiers, civihans Are not headed to be professors The basis is man And the rectification of officers But the four TUAN Are from nature Jen, 1, h, chih Not from descriptions in the school house They are the scholar's job The gentleman's and the officer's There is worship in plowing And equity m the weeding hoe A field marshal can be literate Might we see it again in our day^ AU I want is a generous spirit m customs Ist/ honest man's heart demands sane curricula (no, that IS not textual) Let him analyze the trick programs And fake foundations The fu jen receives heaven, earth, middle And grows