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Yuan Shu was an official and Writer.
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Book of Song, Chapter 66Volume 66 Biographies 26: Wang Jinghong, He Shangzhi · 3 passages
二十九年，致仕，於方山著退居賦以明所守，而議者咸謂尚之不能固志，太子左衛率袁淑與尚之書曰：「昨遣修問，承丈人已晦志山田，雖曰年禮宜遵，亦事難斯貴，俾疎、班、邴、魏，通美於前策，龔、貢、山、衛，淪慚乎曩篇。
In the twenty-ninth year he retired and at Fang Mountain wrote a Rhapsody on Retirement to declare what he upheld, but commentators all said Shangzhi could not hold firm to his resolve. Yuan Shu, Left Commander of the Heir Apparent's Guard, wrote to him: "Yesterday I sent inquiry and learned that you, sir, have hidden your will in mountain fields. Though one says the rites of age should be followed, this is hard to esteem so highly. Shu, Ban, Bing, and Wei would then share excellence in former records; Gong, Gong, Shan, and Wei would sink in shame in past chapters.
但淑逸操偏迥，野性瞢滯，果茲沖寂，必沈樂忘歸。
But I am by nature remote in conduct and partial in bent; my wild disposition is dull and slow. If this unassuming stillness is realized, I shall surely sink into pleasure and forget to return.
然而已議塗聞者，謂丈人徽明未耗，譽業方籍，儻能屈事康道，降節殉務，舍南瀕之操，淑此行永決矣。
Yet those whose talk has already spread say that you, sir, are not yet spent in brilliance and that fame and achievement are still recorded. If you could bend to serve the peaceful Way, lower your integrity to devote yourself to duty, and abandon the conduct of the southern bank, then my journey with you would be ended forever.