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Hau Kiou choaan

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The fifth Brother.

Alas! how shall we return home!
Sorrow hath eaten up and consumed my spirit,
TAI-KANG our brother is the public hatred of the people.

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Whither shall I turn myself? To whom shall I suppliant flee for succour?
Grief hath descended into my heart, more deeply than I am able to bear!
I am grieved to my inmost soul! my countenance
Is overwhelmed with shame! My heart wasteth away with anguish!
But this I suffer deservedly, in that I turned aside from the path of uprightness;
Neither did follow virtue as my guide.
But it is too late to lament, and weep for the time that is past away.