stoop under the high heavens,and walk daintily on the thick earth—in straitened circumstances ❍ 谓天盖高，不敢不局；谓地盖厚，不敢不蹐。(《诗经·小雅·正月》) We say of the heavens that they are high,|But I dare not but stoop under them. |We say of the earth that it is thick,|But I dare not but walk daintily on it.