履 → 井

Commentary

Heaven above the lake, but the hunt goes wrong from the start. Chasing a rabbit while searching for a crow, the bow breaks and the chariot shatters. By dusk it is too late — opportunity has passed and the advantage is lost. The verse stages a double failure of timing and focus: pursuing two different quarries at once ruins the equipment needed for either, and evening arrives before the hunter can recover. From Treading to the Well, water draws upward through wood. The Well never moves, never runs dry, and serves whoever comes. The transformation warns that frantic pursuit destroys what patient, stationary service would have provided. The well does not chase; it simply waits and gives.