{"collection":"cfu","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/bop/bop161.htm","path":"cfu/bop/bop161.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cfu/bop/bop161.htm","text":"The Book of Poetry, tr. by James Legge, [1876]\nV\nThe Fa Ko; metaphorical. While there is a proper and necessary way for everything, man need not go far to find what it is.\n1In hewing an ax shaft, how must you act? Another ax take, or you'll never succeed. In taking a wife, be sure \u2018tis a fact, That with no go-between you never can speed.\n2In hewing an ax shaft, hewing a shaft, For a copy you have the ax in your hand. In choosing a wife, you follow the craft, And forthwith on the mats the feast vessels stand.","title":"The Book of Poetry: Book XV. The Odes of Pin: V. Fa Ko","type":"page"}