Book of Odes · Mao witness · 小雅鹿鳴之什第一
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昔我往矣，楊柳依依。今我來思，雨雪霏霏。
When I departed, the willows swayed; now I return, snow falls thickly.
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昔我往矣，
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昔我往 and 今我來.
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詩經 · 谷風行道遲遲行道遲遲，中心有違。不遠伊邇，薄送我畿。誰謂荼苦？其甘如薺。宴爾新昏，如兄如弟！
詩經 · 出車今我來思昔我往矣，黍稷方華。今我來思，雨雪載塗。王事多難，不遑啟居。豈不懷歸？畏此簡書！
詩經 · 小明昔我往矣昔我往矣，日月方除。曷云其還？歲聿云莫！念我獨兮，我事孔庶。
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論語 · Hear explanation and a changed situation巧言令色，鮮矣仁論語 · Track speakers and addressees吾日三省吾身論語 · Hear explanation and a changed situation雖曰未學，吾必謂之學矣論語 · Hear explanation and a changed situation民德歸厚矣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.
- Digital witness
- 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_016.txt, lines 447–454. SHI 167.6
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