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Chinese Literature

by Epiphanius Wilson

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~There Is a Proper Way for Doing Everything~

In hewing an axe-shaft, how must you act?
    Another axe take, or you’ll never succeed.
  In taking a wife, be sure ’tis a fact,
    That with no go-between you never can speed.

In hewing an axe-shaft, hewing a shaft,
    For a copy you have the axe in your hand.

In choosing a wife, you follow the craft,
    And forthwith on the mats the feast-vessels stand.

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