Book of Odes · Mao witness · 國風秦風第十一
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所謂伊人，在水一方
The one I speak of is on one side of the water.
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33 Han characters · 27 distinct forms · 8 units separated by the witness’s punctuation
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蒹葭蒼蒼，
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詩經 · 蒹葭遡洄從之萋萋，白露未晞。所謂伊人，在水之湄。遡洄從之，道阻且躋。遡游從之，宛在水中坻。
詩經 · 蒹葭遡洄從之采采，白露未已。所謂伊人，在水之涘。遡洄從之，道阻且右。遡游從之，宛在水中沚。
詩經 · 白駒所謂伊人白駒，食我場苗。縶之維之，以永今朝。所謂伊人，於焉逍遙！
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論語 · Recover what the text leaves unstated本立而道生論語 · Recover what the text leaves unstated吾日三省吾身論語 · Recover what the text leaves unstated行有餘力，則以學文論語 · Recover what the text leaves unstated父在，觀其志；父沒，觀其行Edition, source, and reuse
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- 詩經 · Book of Odes · Mao witness
- Attribution
- Anonymous poems transmitted in the Mao tradition, with received prefaces and ancillary prose; individual attribution is uncertain.
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- Kanseki Repository · KR1c0001 · base edition tls
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- Kanseki Repository (Kanripo) contributors; upstream base-edition labels retained in each original file.
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- KR1c0001_011.txt, lines 154–161.
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