11 1' Mr. Davis on the Poetry of the Chinese. 



Kwon smg joo kih, ke neng kew ; 

 Sin sze yew ke, gan ho taou. 



Sin king tsing she, shin ye tsing ; 

 Yd seiig hwan she ping seng s/ie. 



Yang meen, koong chang tan, 

 Te s]iou; luy shwong chuy : 

 Foo kivei, — fha Jin iseu. 

 Pin han, — tsin tsze le. 



" Look on life as an uncertain guest, that cannot remain ; 

 Believe that death is fixed, and cannot be escaped." 



" When the region of the heart* is at rest, the body too enjoys ease ; 

 But the passions being excited, then disorders of the bodj' arise " 



" Supinely gazing, now I vent my sighs. 



Now, bending down, in tears my sorrow flows ; 

 The wealtliy alien claims connubial ties. 

 The needy kinsman no relation knows !"+ 



The third sort of parallel, noticed by Dr. Lowth, is what he denominates 

 the synthetic, or constructive, where each word and line does not exactly 

 answer to its fellow as either equivalent or opposite in sense : but where 

 there is a marked correspondence and equality in the construction of the 

 lines — " such as noun answering to noun, verb to verb, member to mem- 

 ber, negative to negative, interrogative to interrogative." 



Examples. 



" Is such then the fast which I choose ? 



That a man should afflict his soul for a day ? 



Is it, that he should bow down his head like a bulrush ; 



And spread sackcloth and ashes for his couch ? 



Shall this be called a fast. 



And a day acceptable to Jehovah ?" 



This is by far the most common species of parallelism with the Chinese. 

 Indeed the two first sorts, already described, are generally accompanied 



* Morally speaking, and meaning the mind. 

 t The ' Heir in old Age,' page 9. 



