《后汉书·本纪·皇后纪上》
而趋往奔赴者仍然不绝，弄得焦头烂额为止。到头来，天运渐渐衰退，帝位也就丧失了。《诗经》、《书经》所叹惋的，大致是同一种现象啊。
而赴蹈不息，燋烂为期，终于陵夷大运，沧亡神宝。《诗》、《书》所叹，略同一揆。
Yet those heading there did not cease, scorching their brains to a crisp. In the end, the Mandate of Heaven declined, and the imperial line was lost. What the Book of Poetry and Book of Documents sighed over must have been more or less the same phenomenon.