{"collection":"cfu","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/bop/bop117.htm","path":"cfu/bop/bop117.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cfu/bop/bop117.htm","text":"The Book of Poetry, tr. by James Legge, [1876]\n2The cricket appears in the hall,\n \u00a0\u00a0And the year is fast passing on.\n Then let us to-day to pleasure give way,\n \u00a0\u00a0Ere the days and months shall be gone.\n But some things our care still demand;\n \u00a0\u00a0Against all excess we must guard.\n Take heed lest the joy our reason destroy:\n \u00a0\u00a0The good man thinks no toil too hard.\u2014\n3The cricket appears in the hall;\n \u00a0\u00a0The need for our carts is all o\u2019er.\n Then let us to-day to pleasure give way,\n \u00a0\u00a0Ere the days and months be no more.\n But first think of griefs that may come;\n \u00a0\u00a0Between the extremes keep the mean.\n Take heed lest the joy our reason destroy:\u2014\n \u00a0\u00a0The good man is calm and serene.","title":"The Book of Poetry: Book X. The Odes of T\u2018ang: I. Hsi So","type":"page"}