{"collection":"cfu","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/bop/bop168.htm","path":"cfu/bop/bop168.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cfu/bop/bop168.htm","text":"The Book of Poetry, tr. by James Legge, [1876]\n2Hs\u00fc-hs\u00fc the woodmen all unite\n \u00a0\u00a0To shout, as trees they fell.\n They do their work with all their might;\u2014\n \u00a0\u00a0What I have done I'll tell.\n I've strained and made my spirits clear,\n \u00a0\u00a0The fatted lambs I've killed.\n With friends who my own surname bear,\n \u00a0\u00a0My hall I've largely filled.\n Some may be absent, casually,\n \u00a0\u00a0And leave a broken line;\n But better this than absence by\n \u00a0\u00a0An oversight of mine.\n My court I've sprinkled and swept clean,\n \u00a0\u00a0Viands in order set.\n Eight dishes loaded stand with grain;\n \u00a0\u00a0There's store of fatted meat.\n My mother's kith and kin I wis\n \u00a0\u00a0I've widely called by name.\n That some be hindered better is\n \u00a0\u00a0Than I give cause for blame.\n3On the hillside the trees they fell,\n \u00a0\u00a0All working with good will. p. 192\n I labor too, with equal zeal,\n \u00a0\u00a0And the host's part fulfill.\n Spirits I've set in order meet,\n \u00a0\u00a0The dishes stand in rows.\n The guests are here; no vacant seat\n \u00a0\u00a0A brother absent shows.\n The loss of kindly feeling oft\n \u00a0\u00a0From slightest things shall grow,\n Where all the fare is dry and spare,\n \u00a0\u00a0Resentments fierce may glow.\n My store of spirits is well strained.\n \u00a0\u00a0If short prove the supply,\n My messengers I straightway send,\n \u00a0\u00a0And what is needed buy.\n I beat the drums, and in the dance\n \u00a0\u00a0Lead joyously the train.\n Oh! good it is, when falls the chance,\n \u00a0\u00a0The sparkling cup to drain.","title":"The Book of Poetry: Book I. Decade of Lu Ming: V. Fa Mu","type":"page"}