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Daoism -> Zhuangzi -> Inner Chapters -> The Great and Most Honoured Master -> 10

子輿子桑Zi-yu and Zi-sang were friends.
(Once), when it had rained continuously for ten days,
子輿 Zi-yu said,
子桑!」 'I fear that Zi-sang may be in distress.'
So he wrapped up some rice, and went to give it to him to eat.
子桑 When he came to Zi-sang's door,
there issued from it sounds between singing and wailing;
a lute was struck, and there came the words,
'0 Father! 0 Mother!
!」0 Heaven! 0 Men!'
The voice could not sustain itself,
and the line was hurriedly pronounced.
子輿 Zi-yu entered and said,
?」'Why are you singing, Sir, this line of poetry in such a way?'
:「使The other replied, 'I was thinking, and thinking in vain, how it was that I was brought to such extremity.
Would my parents have wished me to be so poor?
Heaven overspreads all without any partial feeling,
and so does Earth sustain all;
Would Heaven and Earth make me so poor with any unkindly feeling?
I was trying to find out who had done it, and I could not do so.
But here I am in this extremity
!」- it is what was appointed for me!'


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