{"collection":"cfu","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/bop/bop164.htm","path":"cfu/bop/bop164.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cfu/bop/bop164.htm","text":"The Book of Poetry, tr. by James Legge, [1876]\n2With sounds of happiness the deer\n \u00a0\u00a0The southernwood crop in the meads.\n What noble guests surround me here,\n \u00a0\u00a0Distinguished for their worthy deeds!\n From them my people learn to fly\n \u00a0\u00a0Whate\u2019er is mean; to chiefs they give\n A model and a pattern high;\u2014\n \u00a0\u00a0They show the life they ought to live.\n Then fill their cups with spirits rare,\n Till each the banquet's joy shall share.\n3With sounds of happiness the deer\n \u00a0\u00a0The salsola crop in the fields.\n What noble guests surround me here!\n \u00a0\u00a0Each lute for them its music yields.\n Sound, sound the lutes, or great or small,\n \u00a0\u00a0The joy harmonious to prolong;\n And with my spirits rich crown all\n \u00a0\u00a0The cups to cheer the festive throng.\n Let each retire with gladdened heart,\n In his own sphere to play his part.","title":"The Book of Poetry: Book I. Decade of Lu Ming: I. Lu Ming","type":"page"}