諸經要集 15.69

15.69

"This child is not mine alone:
A wild father, a village mother,
Coming together, have borne a son
Who is neither a crow nor a chicken.
If he wishes to imitate his grandfather's voice,
He was nonetheless born of a chicken;
If he wishes to imitate his mother's call,
His father, on the other hand, is a crow.
Imitating a crow, he sounds like a chicken's cry;
Imitating a chicken, he makes a crow's call.
If he imitates both crow and chicken,
Both will come to nothing."