James Legge
One appearance of the "Shijing" geese is as an allusion for society. In the poem "Wild Geese" ("鴻雁" - "Hong Yan" [小雅 - "Lesser Odes", 彤弓之什 - "Decade Of Tong Gong"]), the geese appear as an allusion to a people wandering with woeful cries, seeking for a home (Murck, 74; and, note 6, 312). Translated by James Legge (1815 – 1897):