{"collection":"cfu","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/bop/bop053.htm","path":"cfu/bop/bop053.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cfu/bop/bop053.htm","text":"The Book of Poetry, tr. by James Legge, [1876]\n2He climbed those ruined walls, thence to inspect\n The site he wished for Ch\u2018u-ch\u2018iu to select.\n His glance the land from Ch\u2018u to T\u2018ang mapped out\n Noting the hills and smaller heights about,\n He then came down, the mulberry trees to view,\n And judged the soil, and learned its nature true.\n These things once done, he asked the tortoise shell,\n Answer auspicious got,\u2014and all succeeded well.\n3Thereafter, when there fell the copious showers,\n He often called his groom, and in the hours\n Of early dawn afield by starlight drove\n Among the laborers, and to cheer them strove.\n And many ways he had, not this alone,\n In which his character distinguished shone,\n To duty bound, assiduous in his cares;\u2014\n And blessing came,\u2014three thousand steeds and mares.","title":"The Book of Poetry: Book IV. The Odes of Yung: VI. Ting Chih Fang Chung","type":"page"}