帕布莉卡《周颂·小毖》是中国古代第一部诗歌总集《诗经》中的一首诗，是周成王自我规诫、自我戒勉的作品。全诗一章，一共八句。此诗以小桃虫会变成大鸟比喻小事不注意就会酿成大祸，以喻管蔡之乱、武庚之祸由小变大，悔恨之情溢于言表。诗中比喻比较含蓄生动。后世常用的“惩前毖后”的成语，即出于此诗。
小毖[1]
予其惩[2]，
而毖后患。
莫予荓蜂[3]，
自求辛螫[4]。
肇允彼桃虫[5]，
拚[6]飞维鸟。
未堪家多难，
予又集于蓼[7]。
我要惩前毖后，
却无人给我指引。
无人扯我去往哪里，
真是自寻苦辛劳。
开始以为小鹪鹩，
忽成大鸟飞上天。
家国多难受不了，
陷入困境更难堪。
注释：
[1] 毖：谨慎。
[2] 惩：警戒。成语“惩前毖后”即源于此。
[3] 荓（píng）蜂：牵引扶住的意思。
[4] 螫（shì）：勤劳。
[5] 桃虫：一种极小的鸟。
[6] 拚（fān）：通“翻”，翻飞。
[7] 蓼：水草名，其味苦辣。
King Cheng’s Self-criticism[1]
I blame myself for woes gone by
And guard against those of future nigh.
A wasp is a dangerous thing.
Why should I seek its painful sting?
At first only a wren is heard;
When it takes wing, it becomes a bird.
Unequal to hard tasks of the state,
I am again in a narrow strait.
[1] King Cheng acknowledged that he had erred and stated his purpose to be careful in the future; he would guard against the slightest beginning of evil and was penetrated with a sense of his own incompetencies. This piece might be considered as the conclusion of the service in the ancestral temple with which it and the previous three were connected.
