Book V. The Odes of Wei: V. Chu Kan

V The Chu Kan; narrative. A daughter of the house of Wei, married in another state, expresses her longing to revisit Wei. 1With long and tapering rods, You angle in the Ch‘i. I think of you, dear friends, Here far removed from Wei. 2Ch‘üan-yüan upon the left, Ch‘i on the right I view. But married far away, To home I bade adieu. 3Those streams, this on the right, That on the left, appear. The laugh that shows your teeth, Your tinkling gems, I hear. 4I watch the cedar oars On Ch‘i, and boats of pine. O might I travel there, And soothe this heart of mine!