Danmei Society for the Egregious Misuse of Chinese Poetry and Literature

Be careful, each of you, of your deportment; -
What Heaven confers, [when once lost], is not regained.

Perhaps attesting to a belief in innate dignity, which stands to be squandered, rather than which must be earned.

"Wasps of the genus Sphex (commonly known as digger wasps) are cosmopolitan predators that sting and paralyze prey insects."

Whatever the fuck a green beak is, we have not seen the last of it:

Minor odes of the kingdom, Decade of Sand Hu, Shijing II. 7. (215)

"They flit about, the green-beaks,
With their variegated wings."

"With a handful of grain I go out and divine,
How I may be able to become good."

a nice line

"We must be mild, and humble,
As if we were perched on trees."
huh?

why two such similar ends in a row?!