{"id":865,"date":"2015-11-04T18:03:58","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T18:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/blog\/2015\/11\/04\/o-soul-go-not-to-the-west-where-level-wastes-of\/"},"modified":"2015-11-04T18:03:58","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T18:03:58","slug":"o-soul-go-not-to-the-west-where-level-wastes-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/blog\/2015\/11\/04\/o-soul-go-not-to-the-west-where-level-wastes-of\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>O Soul, go not to the West<br \/>\nWhere level wastes of sand stretch on and on;<br \/>\nAnd demons rage, swine-headed, hairy-skinned,<br \/>\nWith bulging eyes;<br \/>\nWho in wild laughter gnash projecting fangs.<br \/>\nO Soul, go not to the West<br \/>\nWhere many perils wait!<br \/>\nO Soul, come back to idleness and peace.<br \/>\nIn quietude enjoy<br \/>\nThe lands of Jing and Chu.<br \/>\nThere work your will and follow your desire<br \/>\nTill sorrow is forgot,<br \/>\nAnd carelessness shall bring you length of days.<br \/>\nO Soul, come back to joys beyond all telling!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>Poem calling back the soul of the dead, 3rd century BC, from The Great Summons translated by Arthur Waley in Morris, I. (ed.), Madly Singing in the Mountains: An Appreciation and Anthology of Arthur Waley, Harper Torchbooks, New York, 1970.<\/p>\n<p>Victoria and Albert Museum:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vam.ac.uk\/content\/articles\/b\/burial-customs-china\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.vam.ac.uk\/content\/articles\/b\/burial-customs-china\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s at least one\u00a0\u201cask\u201d in my inbox &#8211; which I am researching, I promise! But in the meantime, have some cool poetry. \ud83d\ude00<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O Soul, go not to the West Where level wastes of sand stretch on and on; And demons rage, swine-headed, hairy-skinned, With bulging eyes; Who in wild laughter gnash projecting fangs. O Soul, go not to the West Where many perils wait! O Soul, come back to idleness and peace. In quietude enjoy The lands &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/blog\/2015\/11\/04\/o-soul-go-not-to-the-west-where-level-wastes-of\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[345,106,346,348,116,112,347],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4eTPU-dX","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}