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APPENDIX VII.
Treatise on the Hexagrams taken promiscuously, according to the opposition or diversity of their meaning.
This last of the Appendixes is touched on very briefly in the concluding paragraph of the Introduction, p. 55. It is stated there to be in rhyme, and I have endeavoured to give a similar form to the following version of it. The rhymes and length of the lines in the original, however, are very irregular, and I found it impossible to reproduce that irregularity in English.
1, 2. Strength in Khien, weakness in Khwăn
we find. 8, 7. Pi shows us joy, and Sze the anxious
mind. 19, 20. Lin gives, Kwân seeks ;-such are the
several themes Their different figures were to teach de
signed. 3. K’un manifests itself, yet keeps its place; 4. 'Mid darkness still, to light Mäng sets
its face. 51, 52. Kån starts; Kån stops. In Sun and Yi
are seen 41, 42. How fulness and decay their course begin. 26. Tá Khû keeps still, and waits the proper
time. 25. Wa Wang sets forth how evil springs
from crime.
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