冽彼下泉，浸彼苞萧。
忾我寤叹，念彼京周。
Soaks that clustering southcrnwood. With a groan I :start from my sleep When I think of Chou and its city. Splash, that falling spring Soaks that clustering yarrow. With a groan I start from my sleep
冽彼下泉，浸彼苞蓍。
忾无寤叹，念彼京师。
For our municipal town. For our old royal town.
芃芃黍苗，阴雨膏之。
四国有王，郇伯劳之。
7 In the ninth month, they prepare the vegetable gardens for their stacks, And in the tenth they convey the sheaves to them; wall, looking towards the north. , 'to plaster.' The doors of the houses of the people were made of wicker-work. In 1. 10, the is not the verb 'to say,' but the particle 'is that now in the 3d tone,—'because of.' The measures just detailed were all taken, because of the extreme cold which was at hand. Stress is not to be laid on the use of the terms , as if there were an indication in the employment of the term after the 10th month, that the people did not use among themselves the calendar of Hèa. 8 In the days of [our] second month, they hew out the ice with harmonious blows; And in those of [our] third month, they convey it to the ice-houses, [Which they open] in those of the fourth, early in the morning, Having offered in sacrifice a lamb with scallions. In the ninth month, it is cold, with frost