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THE QUEEN OF KING YÛ COMPLAINS OF BEING DEGRADED AND FORSAKEN.
The fibres from the white-flowered rush Are bound with the white grass [^469]. This man’s sending me away makes me dwell solitary.
The light and brilliant clouds Bedew the rush and the grass [^470]. The way of Heaven is hard and difficult [^471];—This man does not conform (to good principle).
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