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Confucius - An Officer Tells Of His Mean Employment
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With mind indifferent, things I easy take;
  In every dance I prompt appearance make:--
  Then, when the sun is at his topmost height,
  There, in the place that courts the public sight.

  With figure large I in the courtyard dance,
  And the duke smiles, when he beholds me prance.
  A tiger`s strength I have; the steeds swift bound;
  The reins as ribbons in my hands are found.

  See how I hold the flute in my left hand;
  In right the pheasant`s plume, waved like a wand;
  With visage red, where rouge you think to trace,
  While the duke pleased, sends down the cup of grace!

  Hazel on hills; the _ling_ in meadow damp;--
  Each has its place, while I`m a slighted scamp.
  My thoughts go back to th` early days of Chow,
  And muse upon its chiefs, not equalled now.
    O noble chiefs, who then the West adorned,
    Would ye have thus neglected me and scorned?
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